Biologists' Information Seeking Behavior with Online Bioinformatics Resources for Genome Research
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- February 28, 2019
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Lu, Dihui
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- A questionnaire survey of biologists was conducted to gather data regarding how biologists access and use online bioinformatics resources for their genome related research. The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the information seeking behavior of biologists. A total of 57 respondents from academia, industry and government voluntarily participated in this survey. The survey indicated that the majority of biologists believe that online bioinformatics resources play very important roles for their research and show positive attitude toward future bioinformatics usage and training. These respondents are active users and confident about themselves in using online bioinformatics resources. Most have the basic skills to find information resources, and formulate queries. The results also revealed the information challenges posed by online bioinformatics resources such as how to keep up to date on information resources, hot to query over multiple resources and various training needs for bioinformatics applications.
- Date of publication
- January 2003
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Marchionini, Gary
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Extent
- 44 p.
- Access right
- Open access
- Date uploaded
- December 10, 2010
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