University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Student Searching Behavior and the Web: Use of Academic Resources and Google

Griffiths, Jillian R.; Brophy, Peter

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/1749

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Title
Student Searching Behavior and the Web: Use of Academic Resources and Google
Author(s)
  • Griffiths, Jillian R.
  • Brophy, Peter
Issue Date
2005
Keyword(s)
  • Commercialization
  • Internet
  • Libraries and the World Wide Web
  • World Wide Web
Abstract
This article reports results of two user studies of search engine use conducted to evaluate the United Kingdom’s national academic sector digital information services and projects. The results presented here focus on student searching behavior and show that commercial Internet search engines dominate students’ information-seeking strategy. Forty-five percent of students use Google as their first port of call when locating information, with the university library catalogue used by 10 percent of the sample. Results of students’ perceptions of ease of use, success, time taken to search, and reasons for stopping a search are also presented.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1749
Copyright and License Information
Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 2005.

Owning Collections

Library Trends 53 (4) Spring 2005: The Commercialized Web: Challenges for Libraries and Democracy PRIMARY
Library Trends 53 (4) Spring 2005: The Commercialized Web: Challenges for Libraries and Democracy; edited by Bettina Fabos