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information encountering: a standalone construct

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Information science

coming across useful or interesting information while not looking for it, or while looking for something else.

In information science, information encountering refers to coming across useful or interesting information while not looking for it, or while looking for something else. This meaning comes from Erdelez (1999) in Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.[1]

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  1. Erdelez, S. (1999). Information Encountering: It's More Than Just Bumping into Information. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 25(3), 26-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/bult.118

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