Reasons for the use and non‐use of electronic journals and databases

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  • Title: Reasons for the use and non‐use of electronic journals and databases: A domain analytic study in four scholarly disciplines
  • Authored by:: Sanna Talja , Hanni Maula
    • Tags:: #Synthesis Infrastructure #Domain-Analysis
  • Year: 2003
  • Publication: Journal of Documentation
• Reading notes
  • Key ideas:
    • paradigmatic relevance is an important and distinct notion of relevance (compared to Topical Relevance) in scholarly information seeking (p. 676)
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      • Some kinds of information seeking strategies are better fits for paradigmatic relevance
        • #Claim Subject headings and keyword searches are more effective for domains with high Topical Relevance; in domains characterized more by paradigmatic relevance, these stragies are less useful, and other strategies like chaining or Browsing are more powerful. (p. 683)
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          • Similar result to @bates2002speculations’s hypothesized advantage of chaining in high-Scatter domains
      • Potentially related to idea of the degree of Scatter in a domain
    • Tricky to draw boundaries around what we mean by Domain, but it’s supposed to be above an individual scholar, and includes some the scholar’s context, but more granular than a “field”
    • One interesting finding re: field size (contra R: bates2002speculations)