Understanding the information behaviors of doctoral students

Moore, Monica, and Emily Singley. “Understanding the information behaviors of doctoral students”, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108641.
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Abstract

This exploratory study seeks to understand how the research experiences of humanities PhD students influence their information behavior. The authors interviewed 10 participants from two academic institutions multiple times over several months. The study used open-ended, unstructured interviewing techniques in an attempt to avoid the introduction of library bias. The authors found that the information behavior of PhD students is driven by their need to understand and follow a scholarly dialogue. Resource discovery was heavily influenced by people, and resource use was varied, distributed, and unpredictable.

Title
Understanding the information behaviors of doctoral students: An exploratory study
Author
Moore, Monica
Singley, Emily
Genre
article
Date Issued
2019
General Note
This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Publisher's version available at: https://preprint.press.jhu.edu/portal/sites/ajm/files/19.2moore.pdf
Version Identification
Post-print version of an article published in Portal: Libraries and the Academy Vol. 19, No. 1 (2019), pp. 279-293.
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108641
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Subject
Humanities--Research
Humanities--Research--Methodology

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