Information Seeking Behavior of Medical Scientists at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Science: A Study

Literature Review

There have been extensive and enormous studies have been published about the information seeking behavior of students in libraries. Some attempts have been made to cover studies on area of medical sciences too. These studies pertain to the discussions of the information seeking behavior, and their direct applications to the awareness and utilization of the print or digital resources. User training is quite helpful in obtaining useful, and relevant information is an outcome of the study reported by Asemi (2005) at MUI in Iran. Dong (2003) studied the use of internet resources and the evaluation of its usefulness by Chinese students' and academics'. Curtis et al. (1997) found that health sciences faculty's information seeking behavior depends on upon the currency of information they needed including the use of new information technologies at the University of Illinois in Chicago. The impact of the Internet on information seeking behavior of medical students and faculty and their medical library use was studied by Tao et al. (2003).