End-users in academia: Meeting the information needs of university researchers in an electronic age. Part 2: Innovative information-accessing opportunities and the researcher: User acceptance of IT-based information resources in academia

Aslib Proceedings

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 431-457

  Herman, Eti ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ACADEMIC WORK; ELECTRONIC AGE; ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTRONIC INFORMATION; ELECTRONIC MEDIA; END-USERS; INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT; INFORMATION GATHERING; INFORMATION NEED; INFORMATION RESOURCE; INFORMATION SEEKING; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS; USER ACCEPTANCE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

RESEARCH;

EID: 31244432861     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000007072     Document Type: Article

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