1. The changing patterns in behaviour of scientists on searching e-resources
By: Jaco Zijlstra
Title: Director Scopus
Date: November 17th, 2006

2. Agenda Search as a major driver of change From search to analysis:
addressing users needs by asking them!
One example from Scopus: what have we learned?

3. Search as a driver for change in scientists’ behavior

4. Searching has overtaken browsing

5. Scientists find more in less time
Time spent gathering vs analysing information:
58%
42%
48%
52%
55%
45%
56%
44%
54%
46%
51%
49%
47%
53%
Then Now
Fin/HR/Legal
Sci/Eng
Mfg/Purch
Total IT
Sales/Mktg
Gathering
Compared to print-only era
Scientists now read 25%+ more articles per year
Scientists now read from almost twice as many journals
Analysing
Scientists can now spend more time analysing information than gathering it!
Source: Outsell’s Buyer Market Database, Dr Carol Tenopir

6. From search to analysis: adding value to scientists’ research

7. HOW to (better) support literature research
Approach to product development
Develop new products in partnership with customers
Closely research the literature research workflow of the end-user
Explore real user needs with librarians as well as users and translate these into product solutions
Organise multiple iterations with end-users to test and retest prototypes
Nothing is developed without firm evidence
……………………..…that users really need it

8. User centered design Evidence based development
If we understand the researcher workflow we can design better products
So we significantly invest in user-based design

9. WHAT to develop: Library partners view.
Make sure to:
Not develop a stand-alone tool
Ensure Library Integration
for example customized full-text links
Simple and easy user interface
Cover comprehensive, multidisciplinary content
Combine an integrated web search
Fit with daily workflow of scientists
It’s not about searching but about finding……..

10. WHAT to develop: End user view
Scientists need more than just search capability:
Sometimes you search for what you have seen
Sometimes for what you should have seen
Sometimes for what you might have never seen
And you are always afraid to have missed something
It must be:
Simple
Comprehensive
Lead you to all known AND unknown items
Surprising
Serendipitous

11. Most common tasks users have to fulfil when doing literature research
Find (new) articles in a familiar subject field
Stay up-to-date
Get an overview or understanding of a new subject field
Find author-related information
articles by a specific author
information that would help in evaluating a specific author
for instance co-author, contact info or citations)
It is not just searching; it is evaluating, browsing, selecting

12. One example from Scopus: searching for an author’s work

13. The problem
Searching for an author’s work is hampered by two serious problems:
How to distinguish between an author’s articles and those of another authors sharing the same name?
How to group an author’s articles together when his or her name has been recorded in different ways? (e.g. Stambrook, P and Stambrook, P.J.)
As a result of this problem, finding all articles by one author is cumbersome and problematic

14. Solving the problem
Using data available in publication records in Scopus such as:
Author names
Author affiliation
Co-authors
Self-citations
Subject area
Source titles …
To group articles that belong to one author

19. Thank you !!