IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/sek/iacpro/0100995.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

A Study on the Digital Information Usage in Science & Technology Domain: In the Case of Korea

Author

Listed:
  • Eunjin Kim

    (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)

  • Yong-Ho Lee

    (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)

  • Pillwoo Lee

    (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)

Abstract

Dissemination of Science & technology information is being deemed critical in determining industrial productivity and academic competitiveness on a national level. Therefore the development and management of government supported information system is more important. What is notable is that the demands from researchers are becoming more specified and specialized as the information infrastructure has suddenly undergone digital transformation. So, it is vital to understand the behavior and characteristics of users to encourage for active usage and to fulfill user needs. This study aims to analyze information seeking behavior of Korean researchers in Science & technology domain. It is expected to contribute to developing optimized strategies for knowledge information service.The traditional studies on information usage can be largely divided into system-centered analysis and user-centered analysis. The system-centered analysis focuses on analyzing the use rate, user satisfaction, difficulties in the system usage, but the approach is limited in grasping the context of dynamic users' behavior. We presuppose that the start point of information retrieval is awareness of problems with a given task. And we select user goals, information types, information channel types, and determinants of channel selection to explain the information seeking behavior of researchers in Korea.

Suggested Citation

  • Eunjin Kim & Yong-Ho Lee & Pillwoo Lee, 2014. "A Study on the Digital Information Usage in Science & Technology Domain: In the Case of Korea," Proceedings of International Academic Conferences 0100995, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
  • Handle: RePEc:sek:iacpro:0100995
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://iises.net/proceedings/9th-international-academic-conference-istanbul/table-of-content/detail?cid=1&iid=74&rid=995
    File Function: First version, 2014
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Information seeking behaivor; Science & Technology information;

    JEL classification:

    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
    • C83 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Survey Methods; Sampling Methods

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sek:iacpro:0100995. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Klara Cermakova (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://iises.net/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.