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Ellis, David – Library Quarterly, 1993
Discusses use of the grounded theory approach to derive models of the information-seeking patterns of academic researchers. The background to the development of qualitative approaches to information studies in the United Kingdom is described, and the results of four studies of the information-seeking patterns of researchers are outlined. (Contains…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Science, Information Seeking