Research methods are applied in all kinds of studies, though no consensus exists regarding
what constitutes a research method and how research methods should be categorized. Over …

This landmark textbook is an essential primer for students and practitioners interested in
information seeking, needs and behaviour, user studies and information literacy …

Abstract Information behavior and practices (IBP) research has been repeatedly criticized for
having little impact on information systems development (ISD). Claiming that there is a …

Abstract Information behavior research is an interdisciplinary field in essence due to the
investigation of interdisciplinary in previous work. To track the changes in interdisciplinarity …

Societies are facing fundamental transformations as digital technologies are changing the
ways we live, interact, work, study and read. The social and cultural impact of the digitization …

This article describes the first two parts of a three-stage study investigating the information
behaviour of fans and fan communities, focusing on fans of cult media. A literature analysis …

Research on how people look for and interact with information has a long history in the
information field. The current literature has been repeatedly reviewed in earlier volumes of …

Replicating a series of studies of LIS research trends performed by Järvelin and colleagues,
this content analysis systematically examines the evolution and distribution of LIS research …

Even in a digitally advanced society, much of our daily lives is based in place, but
information behavior research has largely ignored place as theoretically relevant to …

This study aims to reveal the distribution of topics, and the associations among them, in
information behavior research from 2009 to 2018. Working with a collection of 6744 …