Navigating Research: How academic users understand, discover, and utilize reference resources While academic researchers have more access to information than ever before, they are facing unique pain points throughout the research journey. Whether defining and contextualizing initial research questions or understanding related interdisciplinary topics, faculty and student research needs have evolved. OUP has conducted new research including in-depth interviews and surveys with librarians, researchers, and students to understand the utility of scholarly reference resources within the modern research journey and how librarians and publishers can rise to the challenge of the 21st century researcher. |
