Intellectual capital: the new wealth of organizations
Intellectual capital: the new wealth of organizations
Information seeking at different stages of the R&D research process (poster abstract)
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The information-seeking practices of engineers: searching for documents as well as for people
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
How knowledge workers use the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Social Life of Information
The Social Life of Information
Enabling Knowledge Creation: New Tools for Unlocking the Mysteries of Tacit Understanding
Enabling Knowledge Creation: New Tools for Unlocking the Mysteries of Tacit Understanding
The many faces of accessibility: engineers' perception of information sources
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Determinants of the Use of Relational and Nonrelational Information Sources
Journal of Management Information Systems
Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
An empirical analysis of engineers' information behaviors
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
TPDL'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: research and advanced technology for digital libraries
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The essential characteristic of knowledge workers is that they use information to produce information subsequently. Hence, information seeking is a knowledge worker's central aspect of work life. In a corporate research laboratory environment, this is even more pronounced because the results produced are often in the form of more information, such as publications, tech reports, patent applications, or the embodiment of these into prototypes. The practices and expectations regarding information seeking and collaboration are fundamental to productive research in a corporate setting. To this end, a survey research project sampled researchers from selected labs of Hewlett Packard and Compaq Computer shortly after their merger. This survey examined researchers' usage of information sources, their preferred means of information seeking, and the types of information assets they produced. Findings indicated that participants relied heavily on the Internet and other Web-based resources, more so than on their colleagues inside the company. Participants chose which information resources to use based on the time it took them to track down the information as well as the authoritativeness of the sources. Most information assets were generated collaboratively by teams rather then by individuals. Findings suggested that behavior was affected by the unstable environment resulting from the merger and the process of integrating the two research organizations.