An Optimal Foraging Approach to Information Seeking and Use.

Sandstrom, Pamela Effrein

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Publication Date: 1994

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An Optimal Foraging Approach to Information Seeking and Use.

Sandstrom, Pamela Effrein

Library Quarterly, v64 n4 p414-49 Oct 1994

Explores optimal foraging theory, derived from evolutionary ecology, for its potential to clarify and operationalize studies of scholarly communication. Metaphorical parallels between subsistence foragers and scholarly information seekers are drawn. Hypotheses to test the models are recommended. The place of ethnographic and bibliometric techniques in modeling scholarship processes is discussed. (104 references) (KRN)

Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Bibliometrics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Ecology, Ethnography, Hypothesis Testing, Information Seeking, Mathematical Models, Scholarly Communication, Systems Approach, User Needs (Information), Users (Information)

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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