What defines 'enough' information? How policy workers make judgements and decisions during information seeking: Preliminary results from an exploratory study

Information Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Berryman, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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