Chance encounters in the digital library

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5714 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 192-202

  Toms, Elaine G ^a   McCay Peet, Lori ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Serendipitous discovery

Indexed keywords

NEW APPROACHES; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; POTENTIAL VALUES; SERENDIPITOUS DISCOVERY;

RESEARCH;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 77952048762     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04346-8_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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