Information seeking behavior of academic scientists

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2205-2225

  Hemminger, Bradley M ^a   Lu, Dihui ^a   Vaughan, K T L ^a   Adams, Stephanie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 38049146439     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20686     Document Type: Article

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