Information seeking at different stages of the R&D research process

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 285-286

  Hirsh, Sandra G ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Information needs; Information seeking behavior; R D

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

BUSINESS INFORMATION; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; INFORMATION NEEDS; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIORS; INFORMATION SHARING; INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS; MODEL INFORMATIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 0012709989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/312624.312703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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