What is information?

Information Services and Use

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 243-254

  Rowley, Jennifer ^a  

^a EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information; Information processing; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542492213     PISSN: 01675265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ISU-1998-18402     Document Type: Article

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