Undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information retrieval system

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2087-2098

  Zhang, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTION METHODS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS; INFORMATION RESOURCES; INFRA STRUCTURES; INTERFACE DESIGNS; MENTAL MODELS; MULTIPLE DATUMS; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS; RESEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH TACTICS; SEMISTRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; WORKING MECHANISMS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; STUDENTS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 55349123267     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20915     Document Type: Article

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