Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine the user’s online searching behavior in IR interfaces of e-journal database systems. The study is purely based on survey methods and tries to analyse the online searching behavior of respondents of social science disciplines who were doing research in three target central universities of Delhi (i.e. DU, JMI, and JNU). For measuring the responses of the respondents in IR interfaces of e-journal database systems, a total of 396 questionnaires were distributed among the students and out of all, 305 responses were used for the study. The findings of the study reveal that most of the students were not using all the facilities offered in IR interfaces of e-journal database systems for their retrieval process and also encourages menu based searches rather than command based searching.
Highlights
Information Communication Technology has enabled rapid exchange of information on research resulting in an exponential growth of information
This study provides help to the e-journal database system vendor to make their IR interface more interactive and user-friendly to users
Type- in Search Query Browsing Table 11 shows the perception of users regarding searching for information in IR interfaces of e-journal database systems
Summary
Information Communication Technology has enabled rapid exchange of information on research resulting in an exponential growth of information. The major issues of information explosion are the storage of information and its effective retrieval. The field of information retrieval has come a long way in c Shailendra Kumar, Namrata Rai, 2013. All JISTaP content is Open Access, meaning it is accessible online to everyone, without fee and authors’ permission. Under this license, authors reserve the copyright for their content; they permit anyone to unrestrictedly use, distribute, and reproduce the content in any medium as far as the original authors and source are cited. Redistribution, or reproduction of a work, users must clarify the license terms under which the work was produced
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