S. Shoham, SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION - A STUDY OF ISRAELI ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS, Journal of librarianship and information science, 30(2), 1998, pp. 113-121
Reports results of a 1994-1995 questionnaire survey of faculty members
in two Israeli universities, to discover whether changes in scholarly
communication have occurred in the wake of technological changes that
have added new media and tools and altered the structure and composit
ion of library collections; 477 questionnaires were returned out of 23
61. Research focused on three components of the information gathering
process: the researcher's needs and approaches, channels of access to
information, and information sources. Five basic approaches to informa
tion and eight information channels were defined. Concludes that, desp
ite extensive changes in higher education, institutions and libraries
that have occurred during the previous 45 years since the interest in
information gathering behaviour began, patterns for obtaining informat
ion remain conservative and have resisted transformation. professional
periodicals are still the most important tools for obtaining professi
onal information and monographs still play a major role.