Web searchers' attributions of success and failure: An empirical study

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 659-679

  Mansourian, Yazdan ^a   Ford, Nigel ^b  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information research; Information retrieval; World wide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847139306     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410710827745     Document Type: Article

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