Undergraduate search strategies and evaluation criteria: Searching for credible sources

New Library World

Volumn 111, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 113-124

  Currie, Lea ^a   Devlin, Frances ^a   Emde, Judith ^a   Graves, Kathryn ^a  

^a University of Kansas Libraries   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Information literacy; Undergraduates; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949552380     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074801011027628     Document Type: Article

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