Information needs of users in biomedical industry clusters
10.3969/j.issn.1671-3982.2016.09.006
- VernacularTitle:生物医药产业集群用户信息需求调查与分析
- Author:
Yingying ZHAO
;
Dajun TIAN
;
Han ZHANG
;
Yuhong ZHAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Biomedical industry cluster;
User needs;
questionnaire investigation;
Information service
- From:Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science
2016;25(9):22-27
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
A large number of starring biomedical industry clusters are emerged in recent years with the develop-ment of biomedical industry. The information access approaches of users in biomedical industry clusters consisting of higher education institutions, scientific research institutions and enterprises, the types of biomedical information they need, the transformation ways of their achievements, and the major barriers of information access were thus in-vestigated in this paper with questionnaires. The different information behaviors were compared between the users of scientific research group and enterprise group. The characteristics of information need of users in biomedical indus-try clusters were summarized, and following suggestions were put forward, namely establishing information service platform, perfecting institution-oriented information service model, and improving information service system for bi-omedical industry clusters.
