In theory, articles can attract readers on the social reference sharing site M endeley before
they can attract citations, so M endeley altmetrics could provide early indications of article …

The increasing popularity of academic social networking sites (ASNSs) requires studies on
the usage of ASNSs among scholars and evaluations of the effectiveness of these ASNSs …

In this paper we extend earlier work on the role of the personality trait of resistance to
change (RTC) in the adoption of digital libraries. We present an integrative study, drawing …

Discipline is commonly used to denote particular areas of knowledge, research and
education. Yet, the concept is often not very well defined or even explicitly discussed when …

Purpose–The aim of this paper is to develop a new user‐friendly in‐house tracking
methodology for academics to analyse the effectiveness of visits (return visit behaviour and …

Since the recent emergence of electronic literature resources, researchers have begun to
adopt new information‐seeking practices. The purpose of this research is to investigate the …

Adopting an intradisciplinary perspective, this article evaluates the information-seeking
behavior of academics from different subfields of physics and astronomy. It investigates the …

In this paper we study the diversity of users of open access articles on the Finnish Journal. fi
platform. This platform hosts around hundred open access journals from Finland publishing …

Purpose–This paper aims to report on the findings of the second phase of the Behavioural
strand of the EC‐funded PEER project (http://www. peerproject. eu/). The paper seeks to …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to examine different aspects of information seeking
behaviour, and specifically the information seeking behaviour and information needs of …