Knowledge Management in PhD Students’ Information Seeking Behaviors

DOI

10.2991/hssmee-18.2018.19How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Knowledge management, information seeking behavior, academic research, knowledge management practices.

Abstract

This article discusses how to apply knowledge management strategy to PhD students’ academic information seeking behavior. It reviews the definitions and relations of information and knowledge, personal information management and personal knowledge management, and knowledge management and information seeking. Based on the knowledge management perspective in information seeking behavior, the interviews are conducted. Thirty PhD students participate in the interview and a systematic analysis is shown to readers. Based on the results of the interviews, authors focus on the barriers which theses PhD students are faced in their academic research. To address the problems, this article provides three practical recommendations according to the main problems which the students have. All the recommendations are under the knowledge management perspective and are aimed to connecting knowledge management strategies with PhD students’ information seeking behavior. These knowledge management suggestions can enhance their research and improve the outcomes of the research in an efficient way.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yi Zhou
AU  - Siyi Chen
AU  - Mengshi Xu
PY  - 2018/09
DA  - 2018/09
TI  - Knowledge Management in PhD Students’ Information Seeking Behaviors
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, Management and Education Engineering (HSSMEE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 119
SN  - 2352-5398
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