Exploring contributions of public resources in social bookmarking systems

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 245-253

  Arakji, Reina ^a   Benbunan Fich, Raquel ^a   Koufaris, Marios ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Information sharing; Online public repositories; Public goods; Social bookmarking; Social computing; Social networks; Tagging; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SHARING; ONLINE PUBLIC REPOSITORIES; PUBLIC GOODS; SOCIAL BOOKMARKING; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TAGGING; WEB 2.0;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 67349150670     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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