The UK Joint Information Systems Committee and the British Library have just released a major (17,00 student) study of the behaviors and beliefs of "Generation Y" (eg born 1983-1992) doctoral students involving social media, information access, and related matters.

A press release including some summary of the findings, and pointers to the entire report, are at:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2012/06/generationy.aspx

You can download the report at

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/reports/2012/researchers-of-tomorrow.pdf

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI