Differences between novice and experienced users in searching information on the World Wide Web

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 576-581

  Lazonder, Ard W ^a   Biemans, Harm J A ^a   Wopereis, Iwan G J H ^a  

^a Department of Education ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

HYPERTEXT RESEARCH;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0033750454     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:6<576::AID-ASI9>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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