Approaches to understanding the searching behavior of crossfire users

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1016-1027

  Cooke, Frank ^a   Kopelev, Nikolai ^a   Schofield, Helen ^b   Boyce, Geraldine ^c   Dunne, Sean ^b  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESKTOP INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ONLINE SEARCHING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SERVERS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0036757322     PISSN: 00952338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci0202638     Document Type: Article

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