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ECDL 2001: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries pp 13–24Cite as

Search Behavior in a Research-Oriented Digital Library

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This paper presents a transaction log analysis of ResearchIndex, a digital library for computer science researchers. ResearchIndex is an important information resource for members of this target group, and the collection sees significant use worldwide. Queries from over six months of usage were analyzed, to determine patterns in query construction and search session behavior. Where appropriate, these results are compared to earlier studies of search behavior in two other computing digital libraries.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 47907

    Malika Mahoui

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Sally Jo Cunningham

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Leof. Knossou, P.O. Box 1470, 71409, Heraklion, Greece

    Panos Constantopoulos

  2. Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Computer Science, Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Heraklion, Greece

    Panos Constantopoulos

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Ingeborg T. Sølvberg

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Mahoui, M., Cunningham, S.J. (2001). Search Behavior in a Research-Oriented Digital Library. In: Constantopoulos, P., Sølvberg, I.T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2163. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44796-2_2

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