A method to capture information encountering embedded in exploratory web searches

Information Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Miwa, Makiko ^a   Egusa, Yuka ^b   Saito, Hitomi ^c   Takaku, Masao ^d   Terai, Hitoshi ^e   Kando, Noriko ^f  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL POLICY RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

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