Site navigation and its impact on the content viewed by the virtual scholar: A deep log analysis

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 598-610

  Huntington, Paul ^a   Nicholas, David ^a   Jamali, Hamid R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic periodicals; Information seeking behaviour; Transaction log analysis; Web navigation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES;

ELECTRONIC PERIODICALS; TRANSACTION LOG ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL SCHOLAR; WEB NAVIGATION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 34748819955     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551506077661     Document Type: Article

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