she is working on a master's degree in the School of Information Science at the University of Tennessee and she plans to become a school media specialist.

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Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies

Purpose – By tracking the information‐seeking and reading patterns of science, technology, medical and social science faculty members from 1977 to the present, this paper seeks to examine how faculty members locate, obtain, read, and use scholarly articles and how this has changed with the widespread availability of electronic journals and journal alternativesDesign/methodology/approach – Data were gathered using questionnaire surveys of university faculty and other researchers periodically since 1977 Many questions used the critical incident of the last article reading to allow analysis of the characteristics of readings in addition to characteristics of readersFindings – The paper finds that the average number of readings per year per science faculty member continues to increase, while the average time spent per reading is decreasing Electronic articles now account for the majority of readings, though most readings are still printed on paper for final reading Scientists report reading a higher prop

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Electronic journals and changes in scholarly article seeking and reading patterns

The article employs deep log analysis (DLA) techniques, a more sophisticated form of transaction log analysis, to demonstrate what usage data can disclose about information seeking behaviour of virtual scholars - academics, and researchers. DLA works with the raw server log data, not the processed, pre-defined and selective data provided by journal publishers. It can generate types of analysis that are not generally available via proprietary web logging software because the software filters out relevant data and makes unhelpful assumptions about the meaning of the data. DLA also enables usage data to be associated with search/navigational and/or user demographic data, hence the name 'deep'. In this connection the usage of two digital journal libraries, those of Emerald Insight, and Blackwell Synergy are investigated. The information seeking behaviour of nearly three million users is analyzed in respect to the extent to which they penetrate the site, the number of visits made, as well as the type of items and content they view. The users are broken down by occupation, place of work, type of subscriber ("Big Deal", non-subscriber, etc.), geographical location, type of university (old and new), referrer link used, and number of items viewed in a session.

The information seeking behaviour of the users of digital scholarly journals

Preference for electronic format of scientific journals—A case study of the Science Library users at the Hebrew University

Purpose – To provide a review of the log analysis studies of use and users of scholarly electronic journals.Design/methodology/approach – The advantages and limitations of log analysis are described and then past studies of e‐journals' use and users that applied this methodology are critiqued. The results of these studies will be very briefly compared with some survey studies. Those aspects of online journals' use and users studies that log analysis can investigate well and those aspects that log analysis can not disclose enough information about are highlighted.Findings – The review indicates that although there is a debate about reliability of the results of log analysis, this methodology has great potential for studying online journals' use and their users' information seeking behaviour.Originality/value – This paper highlights the strengths and weaknesses of log analysis for studying digital journals and raises a couple of questions to be investigated by further studies.

The use and users of scholarly e‐journals: a review of log analysis studies

This article reports the results of a survey of Texas AM the reasons faculty were or were not using e-journals; and faculty concerns about e-journals. Faculty were also asked about other journal format choices for library collections and individual subscriptions. The findings suggest Texas A&M faculty are cautiously optimistic about electronic journals but unwilling to forego print journals.

Zheng Ye (Lan) Yang Mls

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End-User Acceptance of Electronic Journals