RT Journal Article
T1 Information Discovery and Scholar Networking as Modes of Scholarly Communication: A Comparative Study
A1 Abutayeh Abutayeh, Noor Saleh
A1 García Orosa, Berta
A1 Al-Dwairi, Khaldoon M.
K1 Electronic resources
K1 Information discovery
K1 Social networking
K1 Scholarly communication
K1 Researchers
K1 Arab countries
AB This study sought to investigate information discovery and scholar networking as modes of scholarly communication across researchers in the Arab region. An online survey was distributed in December 2020 using the Google form. The questionnaire also includes the following elements: (a) what are the researchers’ purposes of using electronic resources; (b) how do researchers look for and access scholarly material and (c) what methods of networking are mostly used for scholar connection. The findings revealed no significant differences across the groups, even when it comes to gender and respondents’ discipline, it is clear that ResearchGate is the most popular among them all. Researchers holding degrees in Humanities and educational sciences like to use research platforms (M=4.37) more than social media (M=3.87). Moreover, the popularity of using Google Scholar and Google in the scholarly field are confirmed in line with previous evidences. There are highly significant differences across researchers regarding their behaviours in accessing scholarly material. Results suggest that respondents don’t consider researcher platforms like ResearchGate & Academia.edu as social media. It might be explained by the fact that research platforms like ResearchGate and Academia.edu are organized and designed for research purposes in a way that Facebook, Twitter, and Instgram are not
PB University of Nebraska: Lincoln Libraries
SN 1522-0222
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/37880
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/37880
LA eng
NO Abutayeh, Noor; Garcia-Orosa, Berta; and Al_Dwairi, Khaldoon M., "Information Discovery and Scholar Networking as Modes of Scholarly Communication: A Comparative Study" (2021). Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal). 5909. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/5909
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026