A literature review of information searching behavior models of foreign academic users / 中华医学图书情报杂志

ABSTRACT

Papers on information searching behavior models of foreign academic users in the past 10 years were analyzed in aspects of general academic users, establishment of specific subject user model, and modification of present models. The stress was laid on uncertain model, information encountering model, medical scholar information searching behavior model, social scientific scholar information searching behavior mode, historian information searching behavior model, and musician information searching behavior model, and the general characteristics and developmental trend of foreign information searching behavior models were summarized.