Information seeking is an important behavior for cancer prevention and control, but inequalities in the communication of information about the disease persist. Conceptual models have suggested that low health literacy is a barrier to information seeking, and that fatalistic beliefs about cancer may be a mediator of this relationship. Cancer fatalism can be described as deterministic thoughts ab...

background scholars describe poor health literacy as a “silent epidemic,” which is challenging the functioning of healthcare systems all over the world. health literacy is mainly meant as an individual trait which concerns the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information in order to effectively navigate the health system. low health literate patients perceive poor self-ef...

knowledge-based society is already established in some developed countries which are not far away from bangladesh. in the transition to the knowledge/information based society, information literacy is essential for the effective and widespread use of information. it is used today to describe a set of skills and competencies, processes and actions, and attitudes that lead one to be a wise inform...

Meeting the 'Real World' information needs of today's students provides a challenge to university libraries. For many libraries part of the solution is the introduction of a cross database searching portal. But these systems raise questions about the quality of information obtained and whether they contribute to the long term information literacy development of students. Examining the process o...

Assessing the trustworthiness of information found on the Web is challenging because of two factors. First, there is a little control over publishing quality. Second, Web users have little information available on which to base judgment of the trustworthiness of Web information while they are interacting with it. This work addresses this problem by collecting and presenting metadata about autho...

Introduction. A number of Scandinavian Web-based tutorials on information seeking mediate a kind of discourse of information literacy practice by combining the two themes, written academic assignment and information seeking. The aim of the paper is first to examine students' experience of the pragmatic value of two of these Web-based tutorials, 'VIKO' (www.ntnu.no/viko/english) and 'UB-testen' ...

Social media have become increasingly popular among different user groups. Although used for social purposes, some social media platforms (e.g., Wikipedia) have been emerging as important information sources. Focusing on undergraduate students, a survey was conducted to investigate the following: (1) which social media platforms are used as information sources, (2) what are the main reasons for...

Introduction. The article argues for a closer association between information seeking research and the practices of teaching information seeking. Findings are presented from a research project on information seeking, didactics and learning (IDOL) investigating librarians' and teachers' experiences of teaching information seeking. Method. Thirteen teachers and five librarians, teaching 12-19 yea...