Perceptions of the web as a search tool amongst researchers in biological sciences

New Library World

Volumn 108, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 407-423

  Mansourian, Yazdan ^a   Madden, Andrew D ^b  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Qualitative research; Research work; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748846888     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074800710823944     Document Type: Article

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