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Research Article
User information-seeking behavior in a medical Web portal environment: A preliminary study
Article first published online: 23 FEB 2004
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20001
Copyright © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Issue
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Special Issue: Part I: Information Seeking Research
Volume 55, Issue 8, pages 670–684, June 2004
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How to Cite
Zhang, D., Zambrowicz, C., Zhou, H. and Roderer, N. K. (2004), User information-seeking behavior in a medical Web portal environment: A preliminary study. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 55: 670–684. doi: 10.1002/asi.20001
Publication History
- Issue published online: 23 APR 2004
- Article first published online: 23 FEB 2004
- Manuscript Accepted: 3 DEC 2003
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Abstract
The emergence of information portal systems in the past few years has led to a greatly enhanced Web-based environment for users seeking information online. While considerable research has been conducted on user information-seeking behavior in regular IR environments over the past decade, this paper focuses specifically on how users in a medical science and clinical setting carry out their daily information seeking through a customizable information portal system (MyWelch). We describe our initial study on analyzing Web usage data from MyWelch to see whether the results conform to the features and patterns established in current information-seeking models, present several observations regarding user information-seeking behavior in a portal environment, outline possible long-term user information-seeking patterns based on usage data, and discuss the direction of future research on user information-seeking behavior in the MyWelch portal environment.