Journal-citation-seeking behavior at two health sciences libraries.

Abstract

Understanding how patrons in the health sciences identify citations and other information is integral to the mission of health sciences libraries. Studies relying on surveys, focus groups, and interviews reveal only how patrons state they seek information and may not reflect actual behavior. Understanding journal-citation-seeking behavior may help improve tools to deliver health information. This study used direct observation to see how patrons presented article citations to their libraries. Library staff compared the resources patrons used to identify specific journal articles at an academic health sciences library and at a state health department. Observing the general patterns of how patrons present citation requests reveals some of the methods clients use to find information in journals.

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No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 4 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.