Scientists and information: II. Personal factors in information behaviour
Journal of Documentation
Scientists and information: I. Using cluster analysis to identify information style
Journal of Documentation
A comparison of reading paper and on-line documents
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Information behaviour: an interdisciplinary perspective
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Disciplinary differences and undergraduates' information-seeking behavior
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Understanding implicit feedback and document preference: a naturalistic user study
Understanding implicit feedback and document preference: a naturalistic user study
Gender, educational, and occupational digital gaps 1983-2002
Social Science Computer Review - Special issue: Sociology and computing
Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology (Human Technology Interaction)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information seeking behavior of academic scientists
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Trends in Internet information behavior, 2000–2004
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Print vs. electronic resources: A study of user perceptions, preferences, and use
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
National study of information seeking behavior of academic researchers in the United States
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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In an effort to understand how academic scientists seek information relevant to their research in today's environment of ubiquitous electronic access, a correlation framework is built and regression analysis is applied to the survey results from 2,063 academic researchers in natural science, engineering, and medical science at five research universities in the United States. Previous work has reported descriptive statistics about these scientists' information-seeking behavior. This study extends that work to examine relationships between scientists' information-seeking behaviors and their personal and environmental factors. Several regression models, including the Poisson model, the logit model, and the ordered logit model, are built to interpret the correlation among scientists' behaviors. In addition, exploratory factor analysis is used for data reduction. Overall, many factors were found to affect the specific information-seeking behaviors of scientists, including demographic, psychological, role-related, and environmental factors. Of the factors having an effect, academic position was the most important determinant of information behavior. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.