The Google generation: The information behaviour of the researcher of the future

Aslib Proceedings

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 290-310

  Rowlands, Ian ^a   Nicholas, David ^a   Williams, Peter ^a   Huntington, Paul ^a   Fieldhouse, Maggie ^a   Gunter, Barrie ^b   Withey, Richard ^c   Jamali, Hamid R ^d   Dobrowolski, Tom ^e   Tenopir, Carol ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c New Media   (United Kingdom)

^d KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Internet; Students; Young adults

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANALYTICAL SKILLS; BRITISH LIBRARY; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DIGITAL RESOURCES; INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR; LOG ANALYSIS; SURVEY DATA; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); WEB SITE; YOUNG PEOPLE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 47949118815     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530810887953     Document Type: Article

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