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‘Finding’ and ‘discovering’: How understanding researchers’ search and discovery behaviour informed the building of Cambridge Core
Author(s) -
Doshi Nisha
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1002/leap.1077
Subject(s) - selection (genetic algorithm) , core (optical fiber) , key (lock) , data science , computer science , content (measure theory) , world wide web , information retrieval , sociology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , mathematical analysis , telecommunications , computer security
Key points Researchers most often visit publisher platforms to ‘find’ a specific article or chapter after ‘discovering’ available resources elsewhere. Keywords in the title and author names are the two most important criteria for identifying relevant material. Students consider access to be an important criterion for item selection. For both humanities and social sciences (HSS) and science, technology, and medicine (STM), user behaviour when identifying relevant content is remarkably similar. Students and researchers tend to gather content for later use rather than read it in detail as soon as they find it.