Google and the scholar: The role of Google in scientists' information-seeking behaviour

Online Information Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 282-294

  Jamali, Hamid R ^a   Asadi, Saeid ^b  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Sciences; Search engines; United Kingdom Paper type Research paper

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FOCUSED SEARCH; IN-DEPTH STUDY; INCIDENT DATA; INFORMATION SEEKING; PAPER-TYPE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; RESEARCH PAPERS; RESPONSE RATE; SCHOLARLY ARTICLES; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASTRONOMY; ENGINES; PAPER PRODUCTS; RESEARCH; SEARCH ENGINES; SURVEYS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77953789664     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521011036990     Document Type: Article

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