Using participant or non-participant observation to explain information behaviour

Information Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Cooper, Janet ^a   Lewis, Rachael ^a   Urquhart, Christine ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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