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Clinician Search for Information

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1973
AbstractThe use of a medical library by members of the faculty of a medical school was studied by questionnaire in an effort to ascertain the part the library played, among channels of communication, in work‐related information searches. The study described the population of users and the kinds of sources they utilized in an information search, in an ...
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In search of integrated information

Education for Information, 2008
This article examines, from the viewpoint of archival science, the possibility of creating a common framework for information science in the academic and professional fields alike. Information management, both as an academic platform and as an occupation, makes it necessary for library studies and archival science to co-exist in the curricula of higher
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Meta-Information in Conversational Search

ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2021
The exchange of meta-information has always formed part of information behavior. In this article, we show that this rule also extends to conversational search. Information about the user’s information need, their preferences, and the quality of search results are only some of the most salient examples of meta-information that are exchanged as a matter ...
Johannes Kiesel   +3 more
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Information search tactics

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
AbstractAs part of the study of human information search strategy, the concept of the search tactic, or move made to further a search, is introduced. Twenty‐nine tactics are named, defined, and discussed in four categories: monitoring, file structure, search formulation, and term.
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Searching for Information

1999
This chapter introduces the problem of searching for information in an artefact. The aim of this chapter is to show how ERMIAs describe how the user can locate interesting individual entities, or groups of individuals with relevant properties, in an entity class. It presents ERMIA notation for how the entities in a class are stored and accessed.
David Benyon, Thomas Green, Diana Bental
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Information Search for a Professional Service

Journal of Professional Services Marketing, 1995
While the information search component of the consumer decision-making process has been researched extensively in the product context, there is little research on information search for services purchases. This paper identifies different groups of consumers of financial services with particular search patterns.
Geoffrey Soutar, Margaret McNeil
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The Search for Information

The Journal of Photographic Science, 1969
AbstractThin layers of many halides and chalcogenides can be used for image recording since they decompose when illuminated, at a suitable temperature, with light that is absorbed in their fundamental absorption region. A review is given of this process and of the range of materials now available for ‘halide layer photography’.
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The Information Search

Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
This paper in the form of story discusses a college student's information search process. In this story we see Kuhlthau's information search process: initiation, selection, exploration, formulation, collection, and presentation. Katie is a student who goes in search of information for her class research paper.
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Information Searching and Search Models

2017
Key terms related to information searching and search models are defined. A historic context is provided to illustrate the evolution of the four main digital environments that users interact with in their search process to offer readers background information regarding the transition from manual information systems to computer-based information ...
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Improving the search environment: Informed decision making in the search for statistical information

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
AbstractA search for information can be viewed as a series of decisions made by the searcher. Two dimensions of the search environment affect a user's decisions: the user's knowledge, and the configuration of the information retrieval system. Drawing on previous findings on users' lack of search or domain knowledge, this article investigates what the ...
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