Research
Article Discovery Working Group Final Report
8 April 2011
By University of Michigan Library
The Article Discovery Working Group [ADWG] evaluated Search Tools, Google Scholar, and Summon. We analyzed personas to help us understand the article discovery needs of our users, gave our own expert reviews of the three systems, and conducted a broad survey of the University of Michigan community to evaluate our user’s sense of the relative importance of particular functions and features.
Still Partners After All These Years: Ulrich's and ISSN
12 March 2011
By Susan Presley, Serials Solutions
Since 2000, an Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Ulrich's) employee has been located in the Library of Congress's U.S. ISSN Center at the Library of Congress to assign ISSN and create records for both Ulrich's and the international ISSN Register/CONSER database. How this arrangement came about, how it has succeeded over the past ten years, and the broad potential for this partnership becoming a model in both organizations for future automated data sharing and data linking is the subject of this article.
Truth be Told: How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age
25 February 2011
By Alison J. Head, Ph.D., and Michael B. Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Project Information Literacy Progress Report, November 1, 2010
Ithaka's 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education
11 January 2011
By Ross Housewright and Roger Schonfeld
Beyond Google: How Do Students Conduct Academic Research?
11 January 2011
By Alison J. Head
This paper reports findings from an exploratory study about how students majoring in humanities and social sciences use the Internet and library resources for research. Using student discussion groups, content analysis, and a student survey, our results suggest students may not be as reliant on public Internet sites as previous research has reported. Instead, students in our study used a hybrid approach for conducting course–related research. A majority of students leveraged both online and offline sources to overcome challenges with finding, selecting, and evaluating resources and gauging professors’ expectations for quality research.