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Differences
in
Discovery:


            How
Search
Tools
Affect
Undergraduate
Research

                                           Andrew
D.
Asher
                                     Lynda
M.
Duke
                  Susanne
Wilson

                                          Bucknell
University
                          Illinois
Wesleyan
University
    Illinois
Wesleyan
University





                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Mean Scores
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Library
                                                                                                                                                                                             EBSCO                             Google
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Summon                             Catalog/        No Tool
                                                                                                                                                                                            Discovery                          Scholar
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Databases
                                                                                                                                                                               All
                                                                                                                                                                                              2.54             1.92              1.80             2.06            2.05
                                                                                                                                                                            Questions
                                                                                                                                                                           Question 1         2.46             2.29              1.19             2.13            1.96

                                                                                                                                                                           Question 2         2.20             1.15              1.49             1.94            1.73

                                                                                                                                                                           Question 3         2.83             2.01              2.33             2.05            2.15

                                                                                                                                                                            Question          2.70             2.19              2.09             2.02            2.33




                                                                                                                                                                                     Quantitative Benchmarks

                                                                                                                                                         Google Scholar           Library Catalog/Databases                   No tool specified          Summon          EDS
                                                                                                                                                 Bucknell    IWU       Overall   Bucknell     IWU         Overall     Bucknell     IWU       Overall     Bucknell        IWU
                                                                                                                                                  Mean       Mean      Mean       Mean        Mean        Mean         Mean        Mean      Mean         Mean           Mean


                                                                                                                              Total Page Views    33.4        29.7        31.9    37.6         38.1        37.9        42.8         51.3      46.4         43.5          20.6

                                                                                                                              Total number of
                                                                                                                                                   9.3        8.23        8.9      11.1        12.5        12.0        13.0         15.8      14.2         9.4           7.4
                                                                                                                                 Searches
                                                                                                                                Total Time to
                                                                                                                              complete search
                                                                                                                                                   987        942         968      885         1020        963          971        1232       1081         1209          747
                                                                                                                                  tasks (in
                                                                                                                                  seconds)




                                                                               Type of Search
                                                                               Simple   Advanced   Boolean                                                                                                 Resource Types
                                                            Google Scholar     94.5%       4.2%     1.4%                                                                                              Google                                Library Catalog/
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Summon EDS                                             No Tool
                                                                 Summon        79.3%      12.6%     8.1%                                                                                              Scholar                                  Databases

                                                                  EDS          75.4%      23.1%     1.5%                                                        Academic Journal Articles               55.0%         65.0%       73.8%            49.2%                 50.3%
                                                                                                                                                                             Books                      26.5%         13.4%       12.5%            41.3%                 15.4%
                                                           Library Catalog/
                                                                               77.2%      19.1%     3.7%                                                         Newspapers/Magazines/
                                                              Databases                                                                                                                                 2.0%          20.6%       6.3%             3.2%                  2.7%
                                                                                                                                                                    Trade Journals
                                                                 No Tool       81.1%      16.3%     2.5%                                                               For-Pay Articles                 13.3%         0.0%        0.0%             0.0%                  1.3%
                                                                                                                                                                     Websites (including
                                                           Total, All Groups   81.5%      15.1%     3.4%                                                                                                0.7%          0.0%        0.0%             0.0%                  21.5%
                                                                                                                                                                         Wikipedia)
                                                                                                                                                                     Government & Legal
                                                                                                                                                                                                        2.7%          0.0%        5.0%             2.1%                  2.0%
                                                                                                                                                                         Document
                                                                                                                                                                      Other Documents                   0.0%          1.0%        2.5%             4.2%                  6.7%




                   First-page Sources
                              Percent of sources found
                                    on first page
     Google Scholar                    83%
        Summon                         96%
          EDS                          94%
Library Catalog/Databases
    No Tool Specified
                                       94%
                                       94%                                                                                                          Search
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facto
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evalua7on

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Wilson
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 Illinois
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 Illinois
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