"Irrational" searchers and IR-rational researchers

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 222-232

  Pharo, Nils ^a   Järvelin, Kalervo ^b  

^a OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SEARCHING; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEXTBOOKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

WEB INFORMATION; WEB SEARCH TEXTBOOKS; WEB SEARCHING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33645283619     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20272     Document Type: Article

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