- 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
- Year: 2003
- Publication: [[Journal of Documentation]]
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Key ideas:
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[[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]]
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#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)
- Similar result to [[@bates2002speculations]]‘s hypothesized advantage of [[chaining]] in high-[[Scatter]] domains
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#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)
- 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]])
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[[paradigmatic relevance]] is an important and distinct notion of relevance (compared to [[Topical Relevance]]) in scholarly information seeking (p. 676)