Yan Zhang

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Papers & Book chapters:

Zhang, Y. (In press). Undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information retrieval system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Zhang, Y. (2008). The influence of mental models on undergraduate students' searching behavior on the Web. Information Processing & Management 44(3): 1330-1345.

Tenpoir, C., Wang, P., Zhang, Y., Simmons, B., & Pollard, R. (2008) Academic users' interactions with ScienceDirect in search tasks: Affective and cognitive behaviors. Information Processing & Management, 44(1): 105-121.

Wang, P., Dervos, D. A., Zhang, Y., & Wu, L. (2007). Information-seeking and communication behaviors of academic researchers in the Internet Age: A cross-cultural study. ASIST 2007 (SIG USE Best Research Paper Runnerup)

Capra, R., Marchionini, G., Oh, J. S., Stutzman, F., Zhang, Y. (2007). Effects of structure and interaction style on distinct search tasks. Proceedings of ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 442-451).

Zhang, Y. , & Wildemuth, B. M. (2006). Thematic content analysis. In B. Wildemuth (Ed.), Applications of Social Research Methods to Questions in Information and Library Science. [The book is in preparation] PDF

Zhang, Y. , & Wildemuth, B. M. (2006). Unstructured interview. In B. Wildemuth (Ed.), Applications of Social Research Methods to Questions in Information and Library Science. [Same as above] PDF

Zhang, Y., & Godwin, I. (2005). Preserving regional historical and cultural heritages: A case study in building local digital image libraries. The International Conference on Universal Digital Library. Zhejiang University Press. PDF

Tenopir, C., Wang, P., Pollard, R., Zhang, Y., & Simmons, B. (2004). Use of electronic science journals in the undergraduate curriculum: An observational study. Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the ASIS&T (pp. 64-71). Medford, NJ: Information Today. PDF

Wang, P., Bales, S., Reiger, J., & Zhang, Y. (2004). Survey of learners' knowledge structures: Rationales, methods and instruments. Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the ASIS&T (pp. 218-228). Medford, NJ: Information Today. PDF

Tenopir, C., King, D., Grayson, M., Zhang, Y., & Ebuen, M. (2003). Patterns of journal use by scientists through three evolutionary phases. D-Lib Magazine, 9(5).

Short papers & Posters:

Zhang, Y. (2008). Visiting human errors in interacting with IR systems from decision making perspective. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Lillie, S. E., Brewer, N. T., Zhang, Y., & Sheridan, S. L. (2007). Tables or bar charts? Optimizing personal electronic health records. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 33, S119. (Abstract)

Wildemuth, B. M., Blake, C. L., Spurgin, K., & Oh, S. Zhang, Y. (2006) Patients' perspectives on personal health records: An assessment of needs and concerns. Critical Issues in eHealth Research 2006. (Abstract and poster)

Zhang, Y., & Wang, P. (2005). Measuring mental models: Rational and instruments. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 42 (1). (Short paper and poster)

Last updated: 7/3/2008