Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information behaviour: an interdisciplinary perspective
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Seeking and using information from the Internet: the context of non-work use
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
The production of ‘context’ in information seeking research: a metatheoretical view
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Person and context in information seeking: interactions between cognitive and task variables
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Disciplinary differences and undergraduates' information-seeking behavior
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Do nondomain experts enlist the strategies of domain experts?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The effects of domain knowledge on search tactic formulation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Perceptions of credibility of scholarly information on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Human information behavior: Integrating diverse approaches and information use
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Fields and pathways: contrasting or complementary views of information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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This two-part article establishes a model of the mediating factors that influence student information behavior concerning electronic or digital information sources that support their learning. The first part reviews the literature that underpinned the development of the research methodology for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) User Behavior Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, as well as the literature that has subsequently helped to develop the model over the 5 years the Framework operated in the United Kingdom, in five cycles of research that were adjusted to meet the emerging needs of the JISC at the time. The literature review attempts to synthesize the two main perspectives in the research studies: (a) small-scale studies of student information behavior; and (b) the studies that focus on the quantitative usage of particular electronic information services in universities, often including implications for training and support. As the review indicates, there are gaps in the evidence concerning the browsing and selection strategies of undergraduate students and the interaction of some of the mediating influences on information behavior. The Framework developed a multimethod, qualitative and quantitative methodology for the continued monitoring of user behavior. This article discusses the methods used and the project-management challenges involved, and concludes that at the outset, intended impacts need to be specified carefully, and that funding needs to be committed at that point for a longitudinal study. A research project on information behavior, intended to inform current policymaking on infrastructure provision, is inherently difficult as behavior changes lag behind provision. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.