Humanities graduate students' use behavior on full-text databases for ancient Chinese books

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4822 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 141-149

  Wu, Ming Der ^a   Chen, Shih Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ancient Chinese books; Full text databases; Humanities graduate students; User behavior

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS;

ANCIENT CHINESE BOOKS; FULL-TEXT DATABASES; SEARCH FUNCTIONS;

TEXTBOOKS;

EID: 38149030140     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77094-7_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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