Keeping a learning diary to enhance researchers' understanding of and users' skills in web searching

Library Review

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 690-699

  Mansourian, Yazdan ^a  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Information literacy; Information retrieval; Internet; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949117634     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530810911806     Document Type: Article

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