Usability and user perceptions of a thesaurus-enhanced search interface

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 640-656

  Shiri, Ali ^a   Revie, Crawford ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Controlled languages; Information retrieval; Information searches; Library users; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844496278     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410510625840     Document Type: Article

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