The information seeking behaviour of the users of digital scholarly journals

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1345-1365

  Nicholas, David ^a   Huntington, Paul ^a   Jamali, Hamid R ^a   Watkinson, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic periodicals; Information seeking behaviour; Transaction log analysis; Usage statistics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; WEBSITES;

DEEP LOG ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC PERIODICALS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR; USAGE STATISTICS; WEB LOGGING SOFTWARE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33646036374     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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