Novice searchers' use of familiar structures in searching bibliographic information retrieval systems

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 207-214

  Yerbury, Hilary ^a   Parker, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE NUDIST;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031622394     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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