Developing scales for information-seeking behaviour

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-69

  Timmers, Caroline F ^a   Glas, Cees A W ^b  

^a SAXION UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Higher education; Information; Information research; Literacy; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 74349093221     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411011016362     Document Type: Article

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