Background With the expansion of scientific information, and the beginning of evidence-
based practice (EBP), embracing" evidence-based information-seeking behaviors" is …

Historically, there remains an underrepresentation of Black women in and en route to the
highest levels of organisational leadership. The divide is all the more pronounced in the field …

Social scientists increasingly share data so others can evaluate, replicate, and extend their
research. To understand the process of data discovery as a precursor to data use, we study …

Purpose As an emerging tool for data discovery, data retrieval systems fail to effectively
support users' cognitive processes during data search and access. To uncover the …

In this paper, we investigate the retrievability of datasets and publications in a real-life Digital
Library (DL). The measure of retrievability was originally developed to quantify the influence …

Retrievability measures the influence a retrieval system has on the access to information in a
given collection of items. This measure can help in making an evaluation of the search …

Publishing research data is widely expected to increase its reuse and to inspire new
research. In the social sciences, data from surveys, interviews, polls, and statistics are …

An interview study of (N=) 16 senior researchers at a major Canadian research university
shows that researchers use a broad range of means to share information about research …

Purpose To address the shortcomings of existing academic user information needs
identification methods, such as low efficiency and high subjectivity, this study aims to …

With the rise of open data in the last two decades, more datasets are online and more
people are using them for projects and research. But how do people find datasets? We …