Editor's note: This is a preprint of the paper "Towards the design of a full text, searchable database: implications from a study of journal usage" published in the British Journal of Academic Librarianship. The preprint title is slightly different. Abstract: The present paper reports on a study of journal usage amongst professional researchers. The aim of the study was to shed light on how journals are used with a view to making recommendations about the
development of a full-text, searchable database that would support such usage. The results indicate that
levels of usage vary over time, the range of journals covered is small and readers overlook a large
proportion of the contents of articles. Furthermore, three reading strategies are observed which indicate
that the structure of journal articles is not ideally suited to their uses. The implications of these findings
for developing suitable computer-based applications are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/105539 |
| Date | January 1988 |
| Creators | Dillon, Andrew, Richardson, John, McKnight, Cliff |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Journal Article (Paginated) |
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