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Academic Researchers

Alethea Thomas's work (2012) categorizes academic researchers into three fields: Science, Social Science, and Humanities. These researchers pursue inquiries through studies and experiments, relying on personal relationships and primary sources. Ellis (1989) identifies key information-seeking behaviors: starting, chaining, browsing, differentiating, monitoring, extracting, and verifying. The Internet enhances access to global colleagues and specialized resources, as highlighted by Niu and Hemminger's findings on citation databases. This overview poses questions on how information professionals can support academic researchers effectively.

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Academic Researchers

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  1. Academic Researchers Alethea Thomas

  2. Who are Academic Researchers? • Case (2012) describes three basic categories: • Science – Math, Physics, Chemistry, Engineers • Social Science – Communication, Archeology, Criminology • Humanities – Literature, Philosophy, Religion

  3. Academic Researchers seek to answer questions within their fields. These questions often require conducting studies or experiments.

  4. What Resources do Academic Researchers use? Personal relationships with their fellow colleagues is key

  5. Primary Sources of Information

  6. Ellis (1989) identified six core characteristics of information seeking behaviors within the three major areas of academic research. • Starting • Chaining – the following of references • Browsing – noncommittal searches • Differentiating – judging the quality of a resource • Monitoring – awareness of current publications • Extracting – using information of importance • Verifying* • Ending*

  7. Impact of the Internet • More access to colleagues around the world • Searchable digital databases • More access to specialized journals • More access to literature Niu and Hemminger’s findings on the current information seeking behavior of academic researchers points to an over whelming use of bibliographic and citation databases.

  8. With this data in mind, how do we, as information professionals, meet the needs of the Academic researcher?

  9. References Case, D. (2012). Looking for information: A survey of research on information seeking, needs, and behavior (3rded). United Kingdom, Emerald. Herman, E. (2001). End-users in academia: meeting the information needs of university researchers in an electronic age. Part 2: innovative information-accessing opportunities and the researcher: user acceptance of IT-based information resources in academia. AslibProceedings, 53(10), 431-457. Niu, X. &Hemminger, B. (2010, May). National study of information seeking behavior of academic researchers in the United States. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(5), 869-890.

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