Relevance: communication and cognition
Relevance: communication and cognition
Expertise and the perception of shape in information
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Digital libraries and knowledge disaggregation: the use of journal article components
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries
Document structure and digital libraries: how researchers mobilize information in journal articles
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on progress toward digital libraries
Digital libraries: situating use in changing information infrastructure
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue on digital libraries: part 2
Spatial-semantics: how users derive shape from information space
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: individual differences in virtual environments
Web Work: Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web
Web Work: Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 2
Genre based Navigation on the Web
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 4 - Volume 4
Identifying regularities in users' conceptions of information spaces: designing for structural genre conventions and mental representations of structure for web-based newspapers
Designing Usable Electronic Text, Second Edition
Designing Usable Electronic Text, Second Edition
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
User-based identification of Web genres
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The concept of genre in information studies
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
An empirical study of user navigation during document triage
ECDL'09 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
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
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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Few studies have been done concerning document components and their effects on information use. This research empirically tested a taxonomy of functional units in a prototype journal system. This taxonomy was developed by identifying functions of the smallest information units within four journal article components (i.e., introduction, methods, results, discussion), and their associations with information tasks of using journal articles. Experimental results show that functional units can be utilized in supporting navigation, close reading, comprehension, and information use of journal articles to various extents. The results provide evidence that an individual functional unit has varying relevance to information use tasks, and has varying relevance to other functional units in the same or another component for a particular task. This research suggests that the information within a journal article can be organized and presented by functions to enhance effectiveness and efficiency in reading process and reading outcome. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.