Children's use of the internet for information-seeking: What strategies do they use, and what factors affect their performance?

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 744-761

  Madden, Andrew D ^a   Ford, Nigel J ^a   Miller, David ^a   Levy, Philippa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children (age groups); Information retrieval; Internet; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750704006     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410610714958     Document Type: Article

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