New Library World: Volume 116 Issue 3/4

Immersive information behaviour: using the documents of the future

Lyn Robinson

The purpose of this paper is to present the case for studies of information behaviour in the use of immersive documents. Immersive documents, where unreality is perceived as…

Synthesizing visual digital library research to formulate a user-centered evaluation framework

Dan Albertson

The purpose of this study is to synthesize prior user-centered research to develop and present a generalized framework for evaluating visual, i.e. both image and video digital…

The influence of positive hypothesis testing on youths’ online health-related information seeking

Beth St. Jean, Mega Subramaniam, Natalie Greene Taylor, Rebecca Follman, Christie Kodama, Dana Casciotti

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether/how youths’ pre-existing beliefs regarding health-related topics influence their online searching behaviors, such as their…

Nurses’ and midwives’ information behaviour: a review of literature from 1998 to 2014

Catherine Ebenezer

– This paper aims to provide an overview of recent literature on nurses’ and midwives’ information behaviour, with a particular focus on sources used and barriers encountered.

Drug information seeking behaviours of health care professionals in Iran

Iman Tahamtan, Mina Tavassoli Farahi, Askar Safipour Afshar, Hamid R Baradaran

The purpose of this paper is to list the resources that Iranian health-care professionals used to access drug-related information, to know the features and types of drug…

The information practices of Business PhD students

Idunn Bøyum, Svanhild Aabø

– The purpose of this paper was to investigate how PhD students discover, choose and use information and literature for their research.

Wikipedia and undergraduate research trajectories

Lily Todorinova

The purpose of this paper was to analyze undergraduate students’ use of Wikipedia bibliographies. The study has implications for Wikipedia as a “discovery tool” of library…

Faculty perception of Wikipedia in the California State University System

Aline Soules

– The purpose of this paper is to explore whether faculty perceptions of Wikipedia have changed over a five-year period.

Information behaviors in value adding of farmers’ production and marketing in Thailand

Unchasa Seenuankaew, Chollabhat Vongprasert

The purpose of this paper was to study the information behavior of farmers regarding value adding in production and marketing. This paper is a component of a larger and more…

Editorial

Pauline Rafferty, Allen Foster