Research practices of humanities scholars in an online environment: The Getty online searching project report no. 3 |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, York St John University, Lord Mayor''s Walk, York YO31 7EX, England, UK;2. Health Education Yorkshire and the Humber, Ground Floor, Blenheim House, Duncombe Street, Leeds LS1 4PL, England, UK;3. Department of Health Sciences, Seebohm Rowntree Building, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, England, UK;1. Institute of Space Technology, 1, Islamabad Highway, Islamabad, Pakistan;2. Department of Library and Information Science, University of the Punjab, New Campus, Lahore, Pakistan |
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| Abstract: | Use of online databases by humanities scholars searching as end users was monitored in a 2-year project conducted by the Getty Art History Information Program. Visiting Scholars at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Santa Monica, California, were offered the opportunity to do unlimited subsidized searching of DIALOG® databases. This third report from the project presents results of interviews conducted with the scholars regarding their experiences with searching, the role the searching took in their broader research activities, and their attitudes about the future of online searching in the humanities. Scholars found the experience stimulating and novel, with comments ranging from its “addictive” properties to a “Sorcerer's Apprentice” quality to complaints about the “industrialization of scholarship.” Generally, the scholars saw DIALOG searching as supplementing their usual research methods, and not changing them in a fundamental way. Online searching was seen as particularly useful for interdisciplinary research, and as possibly setting a new standard for the extent of literature that should be reviewed. Identified problems were about equally divided between difficulties with the search interface and lack of desired types of resources. All foresaw online searching being used in the future by arts and humanities scholars. |
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