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Increasing Effective Student Use
of the Scientific Journal Literature
(National Science FoundationNational Science Digital Library
Grant)
School of Information Sciences
Research Forum
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National Science Digital Library
Services Track
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Program
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Team
• Dr. Carol Tenopir, Principal Investigator
• Dr. Richard Pollard
• Dr. Peiling Wang
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General Questions• How can undergraduate students be encouraged to
recognize and use high quality science journal literature?
• What features in a journal literature digital collection would be most useful to undergraduate science students and would encourage use?
• What features would be most useful to graduate students and faculty in the sciences for their students and to encourage use?
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Ultimate Goal
• The ultimate goal of this project is to identify, test and implement features of the science journals that will enhance their appeal and encourage sustained use by undergraduate science students
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Phase 1
• Focus groups and surveys– Undergraduate students– Graduate students (Graduate Teaching
Assistants)– Faculty– ORNL scientists
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Phase I (cont’d)
• Analysis resulted in the definition of the following issues for study: – Variations by grade level
– Variations by subject discipline
– Access means for articles and search strategies
– Variations in type of literature required and faculty recommendations
– Problems with journals and access
– Purposes for using journal articles
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Phase II
• March – July 2003
• Testing specified desired features
• Testbed is a full subset of OSTI’s Energy Citations Database
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Collection Testbed: Energy Citations Database
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Collection Testbed: Elsevier ScienceDirect
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Examples of Features to be Tested
• Linking
• Parts of articles attended to
• Navigation (Help, Save)
• Information used in search strategies
• Understanding journal articles
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Phase 2 Subjects
• Must have taken physics, chemistry, engineering
• Communications class credit
• Phase 1 participants
• Emails, flyers, reminders, class visits, etc.
• 14 participants to date
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Usability Lab
• Built from scratch
• Room 296, Communications Bldg.
• Richard Pollard will discuss