Viewing and reading behaviour in a virtual environment: The full-text download and what can be read into it

Aslib Proceedings

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 185-198

  Nicholas, David ^a   Huntington, Paul ^a   Jamali, Hamid R ^a   Rowlands, Ian ^a   Dobrowolski, Tom ^a   Tenopir, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic journals; Information retrieval; Reading; Transactional analysis

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TEXT PROCESSING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS; FULL TEXT DOWNLOADS; TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 44349136189     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530810879079     Document Type: Article

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