Credibility on the internet: Shifting from authority to reliability

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 667-686

  Lankes, R David ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information science; Internet; Library users; Trust; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 52449090732     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410810899709     Document Type: Article

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