Cognitive styles and search engine preferences: Field dependence/independence vs holism/serialism

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 585-603

  Clewley, Natalie ^a   Chen, Sherry Y ^a,b   Liu, Xiaohui ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Individual psychology; Information searches; Search engines; User studies; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954653297     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411011052966     Document Type: Article

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