Academic Discipline Differences and how it affects the Information Seeking Behaviour of Information Users

Abstract

This paper is on the academic discipline differences and how it affects the information seeking behavior of information users. It gave the concept of an academic discipline or field of study as a branch of knowledge, taught and researched as part of higher education by the university faculties and learned societies to which they belong and the academic journals in which they publish research. Information-seeking behavior on the other hand is a more specific concept of information behavior. It specifically focuses on searching, finding, and retrieving information. The paper explained the biglan classification scheme. It also highlighted the problem statement such as lack of reading material on this subject on graduate students, especially in Africa. The paper went further to reviewed the researches and related studies on the subject matter and also gave recommendation and conclusions which all emanates from the research.