Data mining of maps and their automatic region-time-theme classification
SIGSPATIAL Special
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
A taxonomy of functional units for information use of scholarly journal articles
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Summarizing figures, tables, and algorithms in scientific publications to augment search results
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Grasping the structure of journal articles: Utilizing the functions of information units
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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This article reports the results of a study into the use of discrete journal-article components, particularly tables and figures extracted from published scientific journal articles, and their application to teaching and research. Sixty participants were introduced to and asked to perform searches in a journal-article component prototype that presents individual tables and figures as the items returned in the search results set. Multiple methods, including questionnaires, observations, and structured diaries, were used to collect data. The results are analyzed in the context of previous studies on the use of scientific journal articles and in terms of research on scientists' use of specific journal-article components to find information, assess its relevance, read, interpret, and disaggregate the information found, and reaggregate components into new forms of information. Results indicate that scientists believe searching for journal-article components has value in terms of (a) higher precision result sets, (b) better match between the granularity of the prototype's index and the granularity of the information sought for particular tasks, and (c) fit between journal-article component searching and the established teaching and research practices of scientists. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.