Scholarly use of information: Graduate students' information seeking behaviour

Information Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  George, Carole ^a   Bright, Alice ^a   Hurlbert, Terry ^a   Linke, Erika C ^a   St Clair, Gloriana ^a   Stein, Joan ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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