An informal information-seeking environment

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1036-1048

  Hendry, David G ^a   Harper, David J ^a  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

DATA FLOW NOTATION; INFORMATION SEEKING ENVIRONMENT;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031275381     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199711)48:11<1036::AID-ASI6>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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