Competency 9. 
Understand the structure of the information environment and the process by which both scholarly and popular information is produced, organized and disseminated.

9.1 Understand that information structure, e.g., how information is produced, organized, and disseminated, can vary from discipline to discipline.
9.2 Understand that the value of a particular type of information resource (e.g., book, article, conference proceeding) may vary from discipline to discipline.
9.3 Understand that the information structure in a particular discipline can change and modify search strategies to accommodate these changes.

Best Practice Examples

• Scientific Pioneers (Rice)
• Deciding What to Read : Forward Citation Tracking (Dettman)
• Using GenderWatch (Weisbard)

 

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