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. E: [log in to unmask] W: www.sic.ox14.com -----Original Message----- 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 South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Email: [log in to unmask]