What are they doing? Dilemmas in analyzing bibliographic searching: Cultural and technical networks in academic life

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages

  David, Matthew ^a   Zeitlyn, David ^a  

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Author keywords

Bibliographic Databases; BIDS; Computing; Ethnography; Ethnomethodology; Higher Education; Human Computer Interaction; Information; Knowledge; Library

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010530536     PISSN: 13607804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.1319     Document Type: Article

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