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Comparing Academic and Everyday-Life Information Seeking Behavior Among Millennial Students

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Joan C. Bartlett,

Jamshid BeheshtiAuthors Info & Claims

CHIIR '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Pages 402 - 406

https://doi.org/10.1145/3343413.3378006

Published: 14 March 2020 Publication History

Abstract

This research investigates the information behavior of undergraduate students in the context of academic and three everyday-life information domains (health, news, leisure). Data was collected using an online survey of all undergraduates at McGill University, with 3565 usable responses obtained (response rate 15.6%). Results-to-date show that there is variation by domain in the choice of resource, choice of search tool, and judgment of credibility. The results also show that while the students are able to make good judgements regarding the credibility of resources, that judgement is not always reflected in the resources they actually choose to use.

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Hoeber OStorie D(2024)Graduate student search strategies within academic digital librariesInternational Journal on Digital Libraries10.1007/s00799-023-00378-x25:2(303-316)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s00799-023-00378-x
Nagel MReichert-Schlax JZlatkin-Troitschanskaia OKlose VWeber MRoeper J(2021)The relationship between medical students’ media use and learning progressStudies in Higher Education10.1080/03075079.2021.1953334(1-12)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2021.1953334

Index Terms

Comparing Academic and Everyday-Life Information Seeking Behavior Among Millennial Students
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. User studies
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Specialized information retrieval
      1. Environment-specific retrieval
        Web and social media search
    2. Users and interactive retrieval
      1. Task models

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DOI:10.1145/3343413

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Hoeber OStorie D(2024)Graduate student search strategies within academic digital librariesInternational Journal on Digital Libraries10.1007/s00799-023-00378-x25:2(303-316)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s00799-023-00378-x
Nagel MReichert-Schlax JZlatkin-Troitschanskaia OKlose VWeber MRoeper J(2021)The relationship between medical students’ media use and learning progressStudies in Higher Education10.1080/03075079.2021.1953334(1-12)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2021.1953334

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