Do Nondomain Experts Enlist the Strategies of Domain Experts?.

Drabenstott, Karen M.

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ERIC Number: EJ673421

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2003

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Do Nondomain Experts Enlist the Strategies of Domain Experts?

Drabenstott, Karen M.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v54 n9 p836-54 Jul 2003

Discussion of information-seeking strategies of domain experts and nondomain experts (undergraduates) focuses on a study at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor that investigated whether nondomain experts enlisted the strategies of domain experts when using information gateways on the library Web page; if so, how they learned about them; and whether they were successful. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Seeking, Search Strategies, Success, Undergraduate Students, Web Sites

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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