A model of information practices in accounts of everyday-life information seeking

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-40

  McKenzie, Pamela J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037274283     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410310457993     Document Type: Article

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