Elicitation purposes and tasks during mediated information search

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-91

  Spink, Amanda ^a   Sollenberger, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Information searches; Task specialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542357702     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410410516662     Document Type: Review

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