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ERIC Number: EJ1213742
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Apr
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1531-2542
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Understanding the Information Behaviors of Doctoral Students: An Exploratory Study
Moore, Monica; Singley, Emily
portal: Libraries and the Academy, v19 n2 p279-293 Apr 2019
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.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts; Indiana
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