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title: R- Reasons for the use and non‐use of electronic journals and databases
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author: Sanna Talja,  Hanni Maula
year: 2003
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- #references
    - Title: Reasons for the use and non‐use of electronic journals and databases: A domain analytic study in four scholarly disciplines
    - Authored by::  Sanna Talja ,  Hanni Maula
        - Tags:: #[[D/Synthesis Infrastructure]] #[[Domain-Analysis]]
    - Year: 2003
    - Publication: [[Journal of Documentation]]
- Reading notes
    - Key ideas:
        - [[paradigmatic relevance]] is an important and distinct notion of relevance (compared to [[Topical Relevance]]) in scholarly information seeking (p. 676)
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            - Some kinds of information seeking strategies are better fits for [[paradigmatic relevance]]
                - #Claim Subject headings and keyword searches are more effective for domains with high [[Topical Relevance]]; in domains characterized more by [[paradigmatic relevance]], these stragies are less useful, and other strategies like [[chaining]] or [[Browsing]] are more powerful. (p. 683)
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                    - Similar result to [[@bates2002speculations]]'s hypothesized advantage of [[chaining]] in high-[[Scatter]] domains
            - Potentially related to idea of the degree of [[Scatter]] in a domain
        - Tricky to draw boundaries around what we mean by [[Domain]], but it's supposed to be above an individual scholar, and includes some the scholar's [[context]], but more granular than a "field"
        - One interesting finding re: field size (contra [[R: bates2002speculations]])