Does the student's love of the search engine mean that high quality online academic resources are being missed?

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-31

  Markland, Margaret ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information searches; Quality; Resource management; Search engines; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944369492     PISSN: 14678047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14678040510588562     Document Type: Article

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