Creativity and convergence in information science research: The roles of objectivity and subjectivity, constraint, and control

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1169-1182

  Ford, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RESEARCH; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; STUDENTS;

CONTINGENT DEPENDENCIES; OBJECTIVITY; RESEARCHERS; SUBJECTIVITY;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 7544229401     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20073     Document Type: Article

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