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High-level search activities for Digital Libraries (DLs) introduced by Fuhr et al. [8] go beyond basic query searches because they include targeted and structured searches like e.g. a journal run or citation searching. In this paper, we investigate if and how typical high-level search activities are really used in current DLs. We conducted an online survey with 129 participating researchers from different fields of study that aims at getting a quantitative view on the usage of high level search activities in DLs. Although our results indicate the usefulness of high-level search activities, they are not well supported by modern DLs with regards to the users’ state of search, e.g. looking at a relevant or not relevant document. Furthermore, we identified differences in the information seeking behavior across the respondents. Respondents with a higher academic degree significantly considered journals and conference proceedings as more useful than respondents with a lower academic degree.
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The central tendency of the Likert scales is presented by using median and mode values throughout the paper due to the ordinality of the scales [11].
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We thank the Interactive Information Retrieval group at GESIS for discussions concerning previous versions of this paper. This work was partly funded by the DFG, grant no. MA 3964/5-1; the AMUR project at GESIS.
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Carevic, Z., Mayr, P. (2016). Survey on High-level Search Activities Based on the Stratagem Level in Digital Libraries. In: Fuhr, N., Kovács, L., Risse, T., Nejdl, W. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9819. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43997-6_5
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