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Field-Specific Information Needs of Doctoral Students in Psychology. A Comparative Study

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The purpose of this exploratory study (to be held between February 2015 and June 2016) is to investigate the information needs of doctoral students in the field of psychology. The research will seek to identify the main information challenges and problems of doctoral students in their research process. There are three researched institutions: University of Warsaw, University of Lille 3, and University of California, Berkeley. The study will build upon information literacy (IL), the concept of methodological literacy as well as information behavior, and use of social media in science. The study involves comparisons of how Ph.D. candidates handle their retrieved information, obstacles they meet, and choices they make while searching for information. In 2015, the author conducted a pilot study among Polish and French doctoral students. This paper summarizes the findings at this stage of research.

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    All interview quotations were originally in French and Polish and have been translated into English by the author of this paper.

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  1. University of Warsaw Library, Dobra 56/66, 00-312, Warsaw, Poland

    Zuza Wiorogórska

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  1. Dept. of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Türkiye

    Serap Kurbanoglu

  2. DICEN IDF EA 7369, Université Paris Descartes DICEN IDF EA 7369, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. School of Information, The University of Texas School of Information, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Wiorogórska, Z. (2015). Field-Specific Information Needs of Doctoral Students in Psychology. A Comparative Study. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_38

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