Abstract
The purpose of this study is to get insights on library users’ information retrieval behavior, as reflected in log files, reports, and publishers’ counts. From the data it appears that the library’s discovery tool is not the major source for accessing full text items and the patrons often prefer other sources such as Google Scholar. Google Scholar cannot replace the library, but it can link users to resources that the patrons can access, through library subscriptions.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 454-467 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Journal of Librarianship and Information Science |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.
Keywords
- Academic libraries
- Academic libraries use
- Case studies
- discovery tool
- Discovery tools
- federated search
- Google Scholar
- information access behavior
- Information retrieval
- information retrieval behavior
- link resolver
- User behavior