Information-seeking practices of engineers: Searching for documents as well as for people

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 761-778

  Hertzum, Morten ^a   Pejtersen, Annelise Mark ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

DESIGN DOCUMENTATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0033749057     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(00)00011-X     Document Type: Article

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