Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Traditional IR for web users: a context for general audience digital libraries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Issues of context in information retrieval
Analysing Web Search Logs to Determine Session Boundaries for User-Oriented Learning
AH '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
A survey on session detection methods in query logs and a proposal for future evaluation
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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CASPUR allows many academic Italian institutions located in the Centre-South of Italy to access more than 7 million articles through a digital library platform. The behaviour of its users were analyzed by considering their "traces", which are stored in the web server log file. Using several web mining and data mining techniques the author discovered a gradual and dynamic change in the way articles are accessed. In particular there is evidence of a journal browsing increase in comparison to the searching mode. Such phenomenon were interpreted using the idea that browsing better meets the needs of users when they want to keep abreast about the latest advances in their scientific field, in comparison to a more generic searching inside the digital library.