Mediating at the student-wikipedia intersection

Journal of Library Administration

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 923-932

  Rand, Angela Doucet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowd sourcing; Encyclopedia; Information literacy; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957885319     PISSN: 01930826     EISSN: 15403564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2010.488994     Document Type: Article

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