Finding open access articles using Google, Google Scholar, OAIster and OpenDOAR

Online Information Review

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 709-715

  Norris, Michael ^a   Oppenheim, Charles ^a   Rowland, Fytton ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information searches; Internet; Retrieval performance evalution

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

GOOGLE SCHOLARS; INFORMATION SEARCHES; JOURNAL ARTICLES; OPEN ACCESSES; RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESSES; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE EVALUTION; SEARCH ENGINES - GOOGLE; SEARCH TOOLS;

INTERNET;

EID: 57049182908     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520810923881     Document Type: Article

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