Academic web search engines have become central to scholarly research. While the fitness
of Google Scholar for research purposes has been examined repeatedly, Microsoft …

The nature of information and knowledge, and the ways in which information services are
provided, differ considerably in different contexts. This is an important theoretical and …

Digital tools offer new affordances and methodologies to humanities scholars' research. This
study used a constructivist grounded theory approach to examine humanities scholars' …

Chance, luck, and good fortune are the usual go-to descriptors of serendipity, a
phenomenon aptly often coupled with famous anecdotes of accidental discoveries in …

Will historians become programmers? How do historians collaborate with experts from
computational domains? At the centre of the book is the question how historians are affected …

This article focuses on how collective improvisation, as a play with situational affordances
and constraints, can facilitate or elicit luck in social innovation processes. We propose the …

Problem solving outside of the cognitive psychologist's lab unfolds in an environment rich
with bodily gesture and material artefacts. We examine this meshwork of internal mental …

We investigate historians' experiences with serendipity in both physical and digital
environments through an online survey. Through a combination of qualitative and …

The aim of this study was to find out what is historians' task-based information interaction like
in digital environments. The study was based on TBII framework [20]. The research was …

The digitization of archival collections has become ubiquitous in the modern age. Contrary
to the prevalence and popularity of these virtual collections, they are not without their …