A context-based investigation into source use by information seekers

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1087-1104

  Agarwal, Naresh Kumar ^a   Xu, Yunjie ^b   Poo, Danny C C ^c  

^a SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-BASED; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIORS; ON-LINE INFORMATION; PECKING ORDER; SINGAPORE; SOURCE TYPES; WORKING PROFESSIONALS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 79956127378     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21513     Document Type: Article

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