Psychological aspects of information seeking on the Internet

Aslib Proceedings

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 95-102

  Joinson, Adam ^a   Banyard, Phil ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual behaviour; Information; Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244437770     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530210435220     Document Type: Article

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