Research Group on Information Seeking (REGIS)
website: http://www.info.uta.fi/tutkimus/regis/index1.php

Start Date: 1994-
Typology:  special interest group - campus initiative

Institution:
Department of Information Studies
Faculty of Information Sciences
University of Tampere

Tampere

Address:
Department of Information Studies
TAMPERE UNIVERSITY
33014 Tampere University
Kanslerinrinne 1
Pinni A Building, 4. floor
tel. (03) 215 6970
fax. (03) 215 6560

Contact person: 
Reijo Savolainen (mentoring professor)
Tel. +358-3-3551 6958

Studies on information needs, seeking and use constitute one of the priority areas of research at the Department of Information Studies, University of Tampere.

The Research Group on Information Seeking (REGIS) was established in 1994.

The themes of the current research projects range from problems of job-related information needs to issues of citizen information seeking and use, digital libraries and social informatics.

The group convenes frequently to discuss research projects on progress.

It also organizes informal research colloquia.

Currently, the group consists of about a dozen researchers including senior and post doctoral researchers and doctoral students.

REGIS projects
They are distributed in the following 3 areas:
1.  Information use
2.  Task-Embedded Information Seeking and Retrieval
     Searching Behavior of Journalists: Information Retrieval in the Newsroom
     Information needs and information seeking behaviour of scientists
     Web searching at work
3.  Everyday Life Information Needs and Seeking
     Using the Internet for Non-work Information Seeking
     Web Searching in the Context of Information Seeking Related to Self-development

REGIS researchers 

Keywords: information seeking research group – information seeking – information needs – information seeking behaviour -  information use – citizen information seeking - citizen information needs – digital libraries