Practitioners and academics as authors and readers: The case of LIS journals

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 643-666

  Schlögl, Christian ^a   Stock, Wolfgang G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication; Information science; Knowledge transfer; Research work; Serials

Indexed keywords

EID: 52449131769     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410810899691     Document Type: Article

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