Riba Rambles:
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As part of my thought process, I've been scouring the literature for the latest research on how people search.

A few years ago, I did a lot of reading on the subject, but I've fallen behind.

This list of journal articles and papers is a first pass, for my own personal use. You may all safely ignore the rest of this post.

“Paradigms and research traditions in information retrieval research.”

Ellis (1998)
Information Services and Use. Vol. 18 Issue 4

multiple papers

Choo, Detlor & Turnbull (2000)
Research Project: Information Seeking on The World Wide Web.

“Environmental scanning as information seeking and organizational learning.”

Choo (2001)
Information Research. Vol. 7 Issue 1

“Transparent queries: Investigating users' mental models of search engines.”

Muramatsu & Pratt (2001)
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval.

“Papers: A Taxonomy of Web search.”

Broder (2002)
ACM SIGIR Forum. Vol. 36 Issue 2

“A Longitudinal study of World Wide Web users' information-searching behavior.”

Cothey (2002)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 53 Issue 2

“Cognitive and task influences on Web searching behavior.”

Kim & Allen (2002)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 53 Issue 2

“Web searching: A process-oriented experimental study of three interactive search paradigms.”

Dennis, Bruza & McArthur (2002)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 53 Issue 2

“Information seeking and mediated searching: Part 1: Theoretical framework and research design.”

Spink, Wilson, Ford, Foster & Ellis (2002)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 53 Issue 9

“Information seeking and mediated searching: Part 2: Uncertainty and its correlates.”

Wilson, Ford, Ellis, Foster & Spink (2002)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 53 Issue 9

“Information seeking and mediated searching: Part 3: Successive searching.”

Spink, Wilson, Ford, Foster & Ellis (2002)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 53 Issue 9

“Information seeking and mediated searching: Part 4: Cognitive styles in information seeking.”

Ford, Wilson, Foster, Ellis & Spink (2002)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 53 Issue 9

“Beyond logs and surveys: In-depth measures of people's Web use skills.”

Hargittai (2002)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 53 Issue 14

“Web information seeking and retrieval in library contexts: Towards an intelligent agent solution.”

Detlor & Arsenault (2002)
Online Information Review. Vol. 26 Issue 6

“Web behavior patterns: How knowledge workers use the Web.”

Sellen, Murphy & Shaw (2002)
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems.

“Information seeking on the Web by women in IT professions.”

Choo & Marton (2003)
Internet Research. Vol. 13 Issue 4

“Pre-purchase online information seeking: Search versus browse.”

Detlor, Sproule & Gupta (2003)
Journal of Electronic Commerce Research. Vol. 4 Issue 2

+++ “Modeling the information-seeking behavior of social scientists: Ellis's study revisited.”

Meho & Tibbo (2003)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 54 Issue 6

“Incorporating user search behavior into relevance feedback.”

Ruthven, Lalmas & van Rijsbergen (2003)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 54 Issue 6

“Web search strategies and approaches to studying.”

Ford, Miller & Moss (2003)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 54 Issue 6

“Do nondomain experts enlist the strategies of domain experts?.”

Drabenstott (2003)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 54 Issue 9

“Nodes of topicality: Modeling user notions of on topic documents.”

Greisdorf & O'Connor (2003)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 54 Issue 14

“A Nonlinear model of information-seeking behavior.”

Foster (2004)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 55 Issue 3

“On the Web at home: Information seeking and Web searching in the home environment.”

Rieh (2004)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 55 Issue 8

“The English literature researcher in the age of the Internet.”

Ellis & Oldman (2005)
Journal of Information Science. Vol. 31 Issue 1

“Gender and Web information seeking: The self-concept orientation model.”

Hupfer & Detlor (2005)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. accepted/forthcoming

While conducting this search, I also turned up two papers related to another interest, which I'm just marking down for later:

“Believe it or not: Factors influencing credibility on the Web.”

Wathen & Burkell (2002)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 53 Issue 2

“Judgment of information quality and cognitive authority in the Web.”

Rieh (2002)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 53 Issue 2

Damn, but there's a lot of good stuff in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology! And they don't make their content freely available online. I may have to consider joining again, though since I no longer qualify for student discount, the price seems prohibitive.