The seventh edition of this frequently adopted textbook features new or expanded sections
on social justice research, data analysis software, scholarly identity research, social …

In order to assess the use and usability of a new discovery tool, staff at the University of
Kansas Libraries conducted usability tests with 27 users and analyzed three semesters of …

This article describes an exploratory study examining the common perception among library-
based publishers that open access academic publications (especially monographs) are not …

When searching within an academic digital library, a variety of information seeking
strategies may be employed. The purpose of this study is to determine whether graduate …

This usability study explores whether patrons prefer and are well-served by specialized,
format-based searches or simpler, single-box searches, and the implications of these …

The goal of this article is to understand the reasons why known-item search queries entered
in a discovery system return zero hits. We analyze a sample of 708 known-item queries and …

The University of Southern California (USC) Libraries' adopted Summon as its discovery
solution in 2010. Since installing it as the default search option on the Libraries' homepage …

Librarians have had innovative ideas for ways to use subject and classification data to
provide an improved online search experience for decades, and yet, after thirty-plus years of …

Categories or tags that appear in faceted search interfaces which are representative of an
information item, rarely convey unexpected or non-obvious associated concepts buried …

COVID-19 has created unprecedented organisational challenges, yet no study has
examined the impact on information search. A case study in a knowledge-intensive …