SCHOLARLY FORAGING AND NETWORK DISCOVERY TOOLS
BLAISE CRONIN
(School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA)
CAROL A. HERT
(School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA)
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Abstract
Parallels between subsistence foraging and scholarly information seeking are described in the context of the World‐Wide Web. It is suggested that the prevailing information retrieval paradigm lacks requisite variety to capture the complex of behaviours and stimuli that drives scholars' quests for new ideas and insights. The authors outline a variety of research questions suggested by extended use of the optimal foraging metaphor in relation to distributed multimedia information resources.
Citation
CRONIN, B. and HERT, C.A. (1995), "SCHOLARLY FORAGING AND NETWORK DISCOVERY TOOLS", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 51 No. 4, pp. 388-403. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026957
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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