How the presentation of electronic gateway pages affects research behavior

Electronic Library

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 804-819

  Finder, Lisa ^a   Dent, Valeda F ^a   Lym, Brian ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic journals; User studies

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

COMPUTER-BASED KEY TASKS; ELECTRONIC GATEWAY PAGES; ELECTRONIC JOURNALS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 33751173230     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640470610714233     Document Type: Article

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