51. Where and how early career researchers find scholarly information
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Nicholas, David, Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Chérifa, Rodríguez-Bravo, Blanca, Xu, Jie, Watkinson, Anthony, Abrizah, A., Herman, Eti, Świgoń, Marzena, CIBER Research, CIBER Research Ltd, Equipe de recherche de Lyon en sciences de l'information et de la communication (ELICO), Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (IEP Lyon), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB), Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (UJML), Université de Lyon-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2), Universidad de León [León], Shanghai Jiao Tong University [Shanghai], Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (IEP Lyon), Université de Lyon, and BOUKACEM ZEGHMOURI, Chérifa
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[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences ,научная информация ,поиск информации ,[SHS.INFO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
This article presents findings from the first year of the Harbingers research project started in 2015. The project is a 3-year longitudinal study of early career researchers (ECRs) to ascertain their current and changing habits with regard to information searching, use, sharing, and publication. The study recruited 116 researchers from seven countries (UK, USA, China, France, Malaysia, Poland, and Spain) and performed in-depth interviews by telephone, Skype, or face-to-face to discover behaviours and opinions. This paper reports on findings regarding discovery and access to scholarly information. Findings confirm the universal popularity of Google/Google Scholar. Library platforms and web-scale discovery services are largely unmentioned and unnoticed by this user community, although many ECRs pass through them unknowingly on the way to authenticated use of their other preferred sources, such as Web of Science. ECRs are conscious of the benefits of open access in delivering free access to papers. Social media are widely used as a source of discovering scholarly information. ResearchGate is popular and on the rise in all countries surveyed. Smartphones have become a regularly used platform on which to perform quick and occasional searches for scholarly information but are only rarely used for reading full text.
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- 2017