Using ethnography to investigate life scientists' information needs

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 402-409

  Forsythe, Diana E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH SCIENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; RESEARCH;

EID: 0031819543     PISSN: 00257338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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