Information behaviour exists in two forms: first when information is sought with a clear purpose and second, when we encounter it accidentally or serendipitiously. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the information encountering (IE) and encountered information sharing (EIS) behaviour of research students in an online environment.,The quantitative research approach was applied to carry out this research. The authors selected 120 MPhil and PhD research students (who research information as a part of their assignments) from six departments as sample for the study. Out of 120 research students, 93 returned the filled questionnaires. The collected data were analysed in SPSS version 22. First, descriptive statistics to estimate the IE and sharing behaviour; and later one-way ANOVA and post hoc comparisons using the Tukey HSD tests were applied to investigate the EIS based on the frequency of internet usage.,The findings indicate that the mean scores of the responses remain between “sometimes” and “often”, in all the behavioural sub-constructs of the model of IE, i.e. noticing, stopping, examining, capturing, storing (keeping), sharing and returning. The extended model proved to be valid in an online environment in the context of Pakistani culture. While estimating EIS, the results indicated significantly higher sharing and large effect size among the research students who used the internet from 11 to 15 h a week than those who used it between 6 and 10 h.,Keeping in view the results the research students and parent organisations (universities) working for the improvement of research ranking and research students’ better performance, should know that research information is not only actively acquired but also huge amount of information is accidentally encountered and shared. Therefore, the universities should train their research students to enhance the information sharing of encountered information. That will promote the research culture and may enhance the speed of learning, research work and ultimately result in competitive advantage, without any extra effort.,This is the first study of its type in Pakistan to measure the IE behaviour of research students in an online environment. Moreover, it is the first study which investigates the extended model of IE using a quantitative approach in the Pakistani research environment, which originated in Japan via qualitative research approach.

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在线环境中研究型学生的信息遭遇和共享行为

信息行为以两种形式存在：一种是出于明确目的而寻求信息时，其次是偶然或偶然地遇到信息时。本文的目的是估计在线环境下研究学生的信息遭遇和信息共享行为。采用定量研究的方法进行了研究。作者从六个部门中选出了120名MPhil和PhD研究学生（他们将研究信息作为其任务的一部分）作为研究样本。在120名研究学生中，有93名返回了已填写的问卷。收集的数据在SPSS 22版中进行了分析。首先，使用描述性统计数据来估算IE和共享行为；随后，根据互联网使用频率，使用Tukey HSD测试进行了单向方差分析和事后比较，以调查EIS。研究结果表明，响应的平均得分保持在“有时”和“经常”之间，在IE模型的所有行为子构造中，即注意，停止，检查，捕获，存储（保持），共享和返回。扩展模型被证明在巴基斯坦文化背景下的在线环境中是有效的。在估算EIS的同时，结果表明，每周使用互联网11到15个小时的研究学生比使用互联网6到10个小时的学生具有更高的共享度和更大的影响力，着眼于结果，研究学生和为提高研究排名而工作的家长组织（大学）应该更好地了解研究信息不仅是积极获取的，而且偶然会遇到和共享大量信息。因此，大学应培训研究型学生，以增强所遇到信息的信息共享。这将促进研究文化，并可能提高学习，研究工作的速度，并最终获得竞争优势，而无需进行任何额外的努力。，这是巴基斯坦首次进行的旨在在线研究被调查学生的IE行为的研究。环境。此外，