Information seeking and searching habits of greek physicists and astronomers

dc.contributor.author	Μπρίντεζη, Χαρά	el
dc.contributor.author	Μονόπωλη, Μαρία	el
dc.contributor.author	Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος	el
dc.contributor.author	Brindesi, Hara	en
dc.contributor.author	Monopoli, Maria	en
dc.contributor.author	Kapidakis, Sarantos	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-05-16T10:15:03Z
dc.date.available	2015-05-16T10:15:03Z
dc.date.issued	2015-05-16
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11400/10504
dc.rights	Αναφορά Δημιουργού-Μη Εμπορική Χρήση-Όχι Παράγωγα Έργα 3.0 Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/	*
dc.source	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813004126#	el
dc.subject	Information behaviour
dc.subject	Astronomy
dc.subject	Συμπεριφορά πληροφορίας
dc.subject	Information seeking behaviour
dc.subject	Αναζήτηση συμπεριφορά πληροφορίας
dc.subject	Information searching behaviour
dc.subject	User studies
dc.subject	Μελέτες χρηστών
dc.subject	Αστρονομία
dc.title	Information seeking and searching habits of greek physicists and astronomers	en
heal.type	journalArticle
heal.secondaryTitle	a case study of undergraduate students	en
heal.classification	Information sciences
heal.classification	Library science
heal.classification	Πληροφόρηση, Επιστήμη της Πληροφόρησης
heal.classification	Βιβλιοθηκονομία
heal.classificationURI	http://skos.um.es/unescothes/C01988
heal.classificationURI	http://skos.um.es/unescothes/C02286
heal.classificationURI	N/A-Πληροφόρηση, Επιστήμη της Πληροφόρησης
heal.classificationURI	N/A-Βιβλιοθηκονομία
heal.keywordURI	http://zbw.eu/stw/descriptor/16759-1
heal.keywordURI	http://skos.um.es/unescothes/C00283
heal.identifier.secondary	doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.02.119
heal.language	en
heal.access	campus
heal.recordProvider	Τεχνολογικό Εκπαιδευτικό Ίδρυμα Αθήνας. Σχολή Διοίκησης και Οικονομίας. Τμήμα Βιβλιοθηκονομίας και Συστημάτων Πληροφόρησης	el
heal.publicationDate	2013-02-27
heal.bibliographicCitation	Alexopoulou - Agoranou, A., Ntatsu, G. & Barouchas, P. E. (2013) Information seeking and searching habits of greek physicists and astronomers: a case study of undergraduate students. In "Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Integrated Information (IC-ININFO 2012)", Budapest, Hungary, August 30 – September 3, 2012 "Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences", Vol. 73. 27 February 2013. pp. 785–793. Available from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813004126#. [Accessed 09/05/2013]	en
heal.abstract	The aim of this study was to investigate the information seeking and searching behavior of Greek physicists and especially astronomers. More specifically, it attempted to shed a light on students’ information needs and their familiarity with different ways of satisfying them. The interest for this research emanated from a lack of relative studies among Greek astronomers, despite the fact that the investigation of astronomers’ information behaviour has already been an area of research abroad. The target group of the study was the undergraduate students of the Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. They were invited to complete a questionnaire focused on investigating their personal information, such as semester and gender, frequency and capabilities of information searching, interest in keeping up-to-date, frequency and reasons for use and non-use of specific information sources, searching behavior and reading preference and methods used for getting access to full-text articles. Results revealed that undegraduate students show a preference for familiar, flexible, and easy-to-use information resources that provide quick access to information. In addition, they seldom or never attend seminars or conferences, rarely or never visit their faculty library and are not aware of the existence of some basic information sources. Regarding their searching abilities, they are ordinary searchers using only one or two terms, with no use of advanced searching techniques such as Boolean operators or truncation.	en
heal.journalName	Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences	en
heal.journalType	peer-reviewed
heal.fullTextAvailability	true