User-defined relevance criteria: an exploratory study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: relevance research
A cognitive model of document use during a research project. Study I. document selection
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Users' criteria for relevance evaluation: a cross-situational comparison
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
The role of the internet in information seeking: putting the networked services in context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Judgement of information quality and cognitive authority in the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Seeking: An Organizational Dilemma
Information Seeking: An Organizational Dilemma
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Everyday information needs and information sources of homeless parents
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
On contexts of information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The concept of relevance in IR
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Intra-individual information behaviour in daily life
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
On the web at home: information seeking and web searching in the home environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
How users assess web pages for information seeking
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Fields and pathways: contrasting or complementary views of information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Filtering and withdrawing: strategies for coping with information overload in everyday contexts
Journal of Information Science
How and why do college students use Wikipedia?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Selecting quality sources: Bridging the gap between the perception and use of information sources
Journal of Information Science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The scope of external information-seeking under uncertainty: An individual-level study
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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The study focuses on the ways in which people define their source preferences in the context of seeking problem-specific information for non-work purposes. The conceptual framework draws on two major concepts, that is, information source horizon and information pathways. The former denotes the ways information sources are mapped in preference order in an imaginary field, while information pathways refers to the sequences in which sources placed on the information source horizon are actually used. The empirical part of the study draws on semi-structured interviews with 18 individuals active in environmental issues. Human sources and the Internet were preferred most strongly in seeking for problem-based information. The major source preferences were content of information, and availability and accessibility. Usability of information sources and user characteristics were mentioned less frequently as preference criteria. Typically, information pathways consisted of the use of 3-4 sources. On average, human and networked sources were favored in the early phases of information seeking. Printed media such as magazines and organizational sources were often used to complement information received from human sources and the Internet. However, the source preferences varied considerably, depending on the requirements of the problem at hand.