id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_i76kltz3u5gtfbualenqm3gvdq Cecelia M. Brown Information seeking behavior of scientists in the electronic information age: Astronomers, chemists, mathematicians, and physicists 1999 15 .pdf application/pdf 6512 517 51 Information seeking behavior of scientists in the electronic information age: Astronomers, chemists, mathematicians, and physicists Scientists from four disciplines; Astronomy, Chemistry-Biochemistry, Mathematics, and Physics were surveyed. 31%, and 38% of the Chemistry-Biochemistry, Mathematics, and Physics-Astronomy faculty, respectively, indicated Chemistry-Biochemistry and Physics-Astronomy faculty also made use of monographs and journals for teaching. use of journals is reflected in the reshelving statistics collected at the Chemistry-Mathematics and Physics-Astronomy branch libraries (Table 4). chemistry respondents, none of the faculty in the Mathematics or Physics-Astronomy departments indicated use of Forty-four percent and 38% of the Physics-Astronomy faculty reported regular reading of the current issue of Science and Nature, respectively. Personal communication was noted to be more important for finding less recent information for mathematicians (69%) than for the other scientists responding, scientists responding indicated a high reliance on the library's printed copy for current and archival information. ./cache/work_i76kltz3u5gtfbualenqm3gvdq.pdf ./txt/work_i76kltz3u5gtfbualenqm3gvdq.txt