Digital libraries and users : an Italian experience. Changes in academic users' attitudes, perceptions and usage of study and research tools in a hybrid context

Conti, Cinzia, Contino, Ugo, Farinelli, Gino, Gargiulo, Paola and Marquardt, Luisa Digital libraries and users : an Italian experience. Changes in academic users' attitudes, perceptions and usage of study and research tools in a hybrid context., 2003 . In Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries, Espoo (Finland), 8-9 September 2003. (In Press) [Conference paper]

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English abstract

The goal of this study is to measure the changes in scholarly journals usage in the Italian academic context. In order to meet our goals a survey was conducted based on a on-line questionnaire (1,305 respondents). The final results of this study clearly show the existence of four different categories of users (midway innovators, midway traditionalists, full innovators and full traditionalists), each category represents a different approach to digital library service.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	Digital libraries in Italy, CIBER, Coordinamento Interuniversitario Basi Dati & Editoria in Rete, EmerotecaVirtuale, EV, electronic journals statistics usage, e-journals Statistiche d'uso dei periodici elettronici, riviste elettroniche
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BH. Information needs and information requirements analysis. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals. C. Users, literacy and reading. > CB. User studies.
Depositing user:	Maria Cristina Bassi
Date deposited:	19 Feb 2004
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 11:57
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/4482

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