Who goes to a library for cancer information in the e-health era? A secondary data analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)

Library and Information Science Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 192-200

  Kwon, Nahyun ^a   Kim, Kyunghye ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67649877964     PISSN: 07408188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lisr.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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