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An Exploratory Study of Natural Scientists’ Information Seeking Behavior When Writing a Research Proposal

  • Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2023, 34(1), pp.53~74
  • DOI : 10.14699/kbiblia.2023.34.1.053
  • Publisher : Journal Of The Korean Biblia Society For Library And Information Science
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : February 10, 2023
  • Accepted : February 26, 2023
  • Published : March 30, 2023

Eun Youp Rha 1

1전남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study aims to explore information seeking behavior of natural scientists when they are writing a research proposal for applying to funding. It focuses on understanding their information needs and information seeking behavior, and factors influencing the behavior. Based on the conceptual framework of task-based information seeking, qualitative research methods including in-depth interviews and diary study are used. The results reveal that a variety of communicative subtasks take place in the process of research proposal writing. Also, the scientists tend to need information related funding opportunities and to research design, and access sources including human resources, documents, online databases and websites to meet their information needs. Finally, the study shows that the scientists’ information seeking behavior when writing a proposal is influenced by personal, task-related, and sociocultural factors. This study will be helpful to design effective information services and strategies to assist science scholars applying to research funding.

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