Accessibility and use of information sources among computer scientists and software engineers in Israel: Academy versus industry

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 832-842

  Yitzhaki, Moshe ^a   Hammershlag, Gloria ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TEXTBOOKS;

DATA COLLECTIONS; ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE; INFORMATION SOURCES; ISRAEL;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 3042642779     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20026     Document Type: Article

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