Cyberabstracts: A portal on the subject of abstracting designed to improve information literacy skills

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 667-679

  Pinto, Maria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Facultad de Comunicacin y Documentacin   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abstract abstracting; Academic portal; Information literacy; Resources evaluation

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; TECHNOLOGY;

ABSTRACT/ABSTRACTING; ACADEMIC PORTAL; INFORMATION LITERACY; INFORMATION REPRESENTATION; KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RESEARCH DESIGNS; RESOURCES EVALUATION; WEB-BASED TECHNOLOGIES;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 51849142414     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551507086262     Document Type: Article

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