Abstract
This entry presents an examination of information-seeking strategies within the academic and scientific realms. It delineates the characteristics of scientific and academic information, including distinctions between scientific productivity, production, academic production, and dissemination; while it also provides a categorization of the types of scientific documents, the usage of citation indices, retrieving full texts, and complementary information sources. After presenting a summary of some information-seeking behavior models, it details several useful information-seeking strategies to broaden or narrow search results in information systems, including Boolean logic.
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