Development of information search expertise: Research students' knowledge of source types

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-40

  Chu, Samuel Kai Wah ^a   Law, Nancy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Change and development; Information need; Information search; Research students; Training; Types of source

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947255034     PISSN: 09610006     EISSN: 17416477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961000607074813     Document Type: Article

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