Student digital information-seeking behaviour in context

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 106-132

  Nicholas, David ^a   Huntington, Paul ^a   Jamali, Hamid R ^b   Rowlands, Ian ^a   Fieldhouse, Maggie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Electronic journals; Information research; Information retrieval; Students; Transaction analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 67249165694     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410910926149     Document Type: Article

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