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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
National Science Digital Library
Services Track
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Program
Team
• Dr. Carol Tenopir, Principal Investigator
• Dr. Richard Pollard
• Dr. Peiling Wang
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?
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
Phase 1
• Focus groups and surveys– Undergraduate students– Graduate students (Graduate Teaching
Assistants)– Faculty– ORNL scientists
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
Phase II
• March – July 2003
• Testing specified desired features
• Testbed is a full subset of OSTI’s Energy Citations Database
Collection Testbed: Energy Citations Database
Collection Testbed: Elsevier ScienceDirect
Examples of Features to be Tested
• Linking
• Parts of articles attended to
• Navigation (Help, Save)
• Information used in search strategies
• Understanding journal articles
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
Usability Lab
• Built from scratch
• Room 296, Communications Bldg.
• Richard Pollard will discuss
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