Putting it together online: Information need identification for the domain novice user

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 684-694

  Cole, Charles ^a   Leide, John E ^a   Large, Andrew ^a   Beheshti, Jamshid ^a   Brooks, Martin ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION USE; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; SEARCH ENGINES;

COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES; DOMAIN NOVICE USERS; INFORMATION ACCESS; INFORMATION NEED; KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 19944372120     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20156     Document Type: Article

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