Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Reference Hub1
The Research Habits of Graduate Students and Faculty: Is There a Need for Reference Sources?

The Research Habits of Graduate Students and Faculty: Is There a Need for Reference Sources?

Miriam Matteson
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781613503089|ISBN10: 1613503083|EISBN13: 9781613503096
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-308-9.ch005
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Matteson, Miriam. "The Research Habits of Graduate Students and Faculty: Is There a Need for Reference Sources?." E-Reference Context and Discoverability in Libraries: Issues and Concepts, edited by Sue Polanka, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 46-60. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-308-9.ch005

APA

Matteson, M. (2012). The Research Habits of Graduate Students and Faculty: Is There a Need for Reference Sources?. In S. Polanka (Ed.), E-Reference Context and Discoverability in Libraries: Issues and Concepts (pp. 46-60). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-308-9.ch005

Chicago

Matteson, Miriam. "The Research Habits of Graduate Students and Faculty: Is There a Need for Reference Sources?." In E-Reference Context and Discoverability in Libraries: Issues and Concepts, edited by Sue Polanka, 46-60. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-308-9.ch005

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

The work of faculty and graduate students is information intensive. These researchers make heavy use of particular types of resources to support their research, teaching, scholarly communication, and current awareness. They less frequently use traditional types of reference sources, however, raising questions of why that might be and what should be done about it. This chapter examines the research practices of graduate students and faculty to understand their information needs, their information seeking strategies and the information sources they use. It also looks more specifically at researchers’ uneven use of reference sources and discusses reasons why these practices exist. An argument is made that changes must be made to the types of reference sources available to researchers, and that academic librarians must change the way they promote these resources to their constituents.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.