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One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: How Users Search Different Information Resources

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011)

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Transaction log analyses are common practice to understand user behavior in both online databases and library catalogues. While there has been significant work done in each of these domains, there is little work comparing user queries between library catalogues and online resources. In this paper we report on an exploratory comparison between searches performed via the same interface in three different search systems: a library catalogue, an online research database, and Google Scholar.

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  1. Library, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, John Street, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122, Australia

    Dana McKay

  2. Centre for HCI Design, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK

    George Buchanan

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  1. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany

    Stefan Gradmann

  2. Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Francesca Borri

  3. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto della Scienza e delle Tecnologie della Informazione, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Carlo Meghini

  4. Databases and Information Systems Group, University of Basel, Bernoullistr. 16, 5056, Basel, Switzerland

    Heiko Schuldt

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McKay, D., Buchanan, G. (2011). One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: How Users Search Different Information Resources. In: Gradmann, S., Borri, F., Meghini, C., Schuldt, H. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6966. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_28

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