ART: Milne, Electronic access to information and its impact on scholarly communication

[Gretchen Whitney]

Milne, Patricia
Program Director, Library and Information Studies
University of Canberra

Electronic access to information and its impact on
scholarly communication

Information Online and Ondisk 99: Strategies for the New Millennium
Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Information Online & On Disc
Conference and Exhibition,Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney
Australia 19Ð21 January 1999

http://www.csu.edu.au/special/online99/proceedings99/index.htm

"This paper reports on a case study of the library at the Australian
National University and its client community. The research examined the
effect of enhanced electronic access to information on patterns of
scholarly communication. A focus was the effect of disciplinary culture on
academicsÕ use of the new technologies. The impact of enhanced electronic
access to information on academicsÕ use of the library and patterns of
information seeking is also discussed. The research showed that
disciplinary culture does affect academicsÕ adoption of the new
technologies. This has implications for academic libraries as they plan
and develop training programs, the designers of electronic databases and
electronic journals."


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