Research in progress. Part 2 - Some preliminary insights into the information needs of the contemporary academic researcher

Aslib Proceedings

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 118-131

  Herman, Eti ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Information management; Research work

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACADEMIC STAFF; INFORMATION SEEKING; KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY; RESEARCH WORK;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 2342474557     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530410529495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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