The many faces of accessibility: Engineers' perception of information sources

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 563-581

  Fidel, Raya ^a   Green, Maurice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Engineers' information behavior; Human information sources; Selection of information sources

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; OPTIMIZATION; PROXIMITY INDICATORS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ACCESSIBILITY; ENGINEER'S INFORMATION BEHAVIOR; HUMAN INFORMATION SOURCES; SELECTION OF INFORMATION SOURCES;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 1842843682     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(03)00003-7     Document Type: Article

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