Searching for information in an online public access catalogue (OPAC): The impacts of information search expertise on the use of Boolean operators

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 338-346

  Dinet, Jérôme ^a   Favart, Monik ^a   Passerault, Jean Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Boolean operators; Cognitive approach; Information search expertise; Non librarian users; OPAC

Indexed keywords

EID: 7544239139     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2004.00093.x     Document Type: Article

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