What interface features of academic digital libraries (DLs) do scholars use when engaging in
an exploratory search task? We compare social scientists' and computer scientists' use of …

While the search interfaces used by common academic digital libraries provide easy access
to a wealth of peer‐reviewed literature, their interfaces provide little support for exploratory …

This case study explores how trained and untrained searchers interact with search features
in a digital library. Thirty five trained and untrained searchers completed the experiment. The …

This poster reports preliminary results of a comparative study of user searching in two large‐
scale digital libraries with history focus in the United States: the federal‐level and the state …

This study explored users' application of search tactics within a single search session while
using the US Library of Congress Digital Collections. Thirty-eight sessions of exploratory …

This paper reports on the results of a comparative study of user search logs in two large-
scale, domain-specific digital libraries functioning in the United States: the National Science …

When searching within an academic digital library, a variety of information seeking
strategies may be employed. The purpose of this study is to determine whether graduate …

Academic database systems are vitally important tools for enabling researchers to find
relevant, useful articles. Identifying how researchers select documents from search results is …

Web-scale discovery systems are becoming prevalent in research libraries. Although a
number of studies have explored various impacts of discovery systems, few studies exist on …

Researchers observed 21 participants (undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty)
conduct known item and topic searches using EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)™ 1, Ex …