Open AccessInformation seeking pattern in electronic environment of sciences and arts researchers
Author(s) -
Satyendra Kumar,
Praveen Shukla
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
brazilian journal of information science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1981-1640
DOI - 10.36311/1981-1640.2013.v7n1.05.p57
Subject(s) - the arts , hinduism , information seeking behavior , information science , library science , information seeking , sociology , social science , psychology , visual arts , computer science , art , religious studies , philosophy
The purpose of this paper is to examine information seeking pattern of science and art research scholars and for this the data was gathered using questionnaire survey of 139 (one hundred and thirty-nine) randomly selected, PhD scholars of science and arts departments of Asia’s largest residential university Banaras Hindu University, India. It has been found that both the groups of researchers have some similarities and some dissimilarity in information seeking. Even in this electronic era some research scholars of art discipline depend on print form of publications for their information needs.