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Byline: Laura Smith
Librarians an endangered species
Laura Smith
New research into the way academic researchers use resource discovery tools has revealed that most are more likely to use online search engines than university librarians to locate the information they need.
The study, commissioned by the Research Information Network, questioned 395 researchers and 55 librarians and information officers at universities across the UK to assess how they use and perceive resource discovery services.
It found that while 84% of those questioned use general search engines such as Google, and 66% use specialist search engines such as Web of Knowledge often or regularly, only 15% use librarians, with 29% saying they never employ them at all.
The biggest source of frustration among researchers, meanwhile, is not with the research discovery services themselves but with the fact that it is not always possible to access the articles and books found by these services. "The institution does not subscribe to the journal I need," was a common complaint.
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Source: HighBeam Research, librarians an endangered species.