Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Why are online catalogs still hard to use?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: current research in online public access systems
Failure analysis of subject searches in a test of a new design for subject access to online catalogs
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: current research in online public access systems
Some perspectives on the evaluation of information retrieval systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: evaluation of information retrieval systems
End-user searching behavior in information retrieval: a longitudinal study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Library Hi Tech - Special issue on system security in the networked library
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Empirical studies of end-user information searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A review of web searching studies and a framework for future research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on interactivity at the text retrieval conference (TREC)
Subject categorization of query terms for exploring Web users' search interests
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
Coverage, relevance, and ranking: The impact of query operators on Web search engine results
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
CQE: a collaborative querying environment
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Subjective relevance: implications on interface design for information retrieval systems
ICADL'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: implementing strategies and sharing experiences
Task Effects on Interactive Search: The Query Factor
Focused Access to XML Documents
Online community information seeking: The queries of three communities in Southwestern Ontario
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
One of these things is not like the others: how users search different information resources
TPDL'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: research and advanced technology for digital libraries
A jump to the left (and then a step to the right): reading practices within academic ebooks
Proceedings of the 23rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
Book selection behavior in the physical library: implications for ebook collections
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
Natural language technology and query expansion: issues, state-of-the-art and perspectives
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The impact of task phrasing on the choice of search keywords and on the search process and success
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Query expansion of zero-hit subject searches: using a thesaurus in conjunction with NLP techniques
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
Boxing clever: how searchers use and adapt to a one-box library search
Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration
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A transaction log analysis of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) OPAC was conducted to identify query and search failure patterns with the goal of identifying areas of improvement for the system. One semester's worth of OPAC transaction logs were obtained and from these, 641, 991 queries were extracted and used for this work. Issues investigated included query length, frequency and type of search options and Boolean operators used as well as their relationships with search failure. Among other findings, results indicate that a majority of the queries were simple, with short query lengths and a low usage of Boolean operators. Failure analysis revealed that on average, users had an almost equal chance of obtaining no records or at least one record to a submitted query. We propose enhancements and suggest future areas of work to improve the users' search experience with the NTU OPAC.