Relationship among activities and problems causing uncertainty in information seeking and retrieval

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 470-499

  Chowdhury, Sudatta ^a   Gibb, Forbes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Uncertainty management

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349591424     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410910952438     Document Type: Article

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