Information behaviour research: Where have we been, where are we going?

Heidi Julien; Michael O’brien

doi:10.1353/ils.2014.0016

Information behaviour research: Where have we been, where are we going?

Heidi Julien
, Michael O’brien

Information Science

SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

A quantitative content analysis of recently published research in information behaviour is compared with previous analyses to create a 30-year profile of work in the field. Variables of particular interest include research methods employed, user groups studied, relative interdisciplinarity, theoretical frameworks applied, attention to affect, and attention to systems design.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	239-250
Number of pages	12
Journal	Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science
Volume	38
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/ils.2014.0016
State	Published - Dec 1 2014

Keywords

Content analysis
Information behaviour
Information-seeking
Research evaluation
Research methods

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