A recent report from a British consulting and training group examines how researchers find published scholarly articles. Scott McLemee wrote a good description of the report in Inside Higher Education.
“One interesting point that the authors extract from the comments of participants is that many scholars remain unclear on the difference between a search engine and, say, a specialized bibliographical database.”
A 28-page summary of the report is available here (PDF, 3.7 MB)
The report provides insights for librarians who often partner with classroom faculty to teach students information literacy skills. Do we need to understand faculty information seeking behavior? What is our obligation to help faculty stay information literate?