Google Scholar as a tool for discovering journal articles in library and information science

Online Information Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 250-262

  Lewandowski, Dirk ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information science; Libraries; Search engines

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; JOURNAL ARTICLES; JOURNAL LITERATURE; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE;

ABSTRACTING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIBRARIES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 77953729896     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521011036972     Document Type: Article

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