On contexts of information seeking

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 735-760

  Johnson, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Contingency theory; Framing; Information seeking

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION THEORY; TUMORS;

INFORMATION SEEKING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0041876265     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(02)00030-4     Document Type: Article

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