From: Simon Inger <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:55:23 +0100

Hi Sally,

Tracy Gardner and I have spent a good part of the last year repeating our
2008 study on How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content and will be
publishing the results very shortly. It most certainly does answer the
questions you raise, and gives additional demographic breakdowns which will
also provide some considerable insight.

We'll certainly notify this list when it becomes available, which should be
in the next few weeks.

Simon Inger

Simon Inger Consulting Ltd.
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From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:27:46 +0100

I have a related question - what do people actually use?  Academic
databases, Google Scholar, or plain old Google?

This may be an instance when identifying what's best is fruitless in the
face of what users actually do.

I'd be interested to know of any recent studies on what search tools are
more commonly used by graduate students, researchers, and for that matter
faculty.

Sally

Sally Morris
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