Information seeking on university web sites: An exploratory study

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-22

  Sandvig, J Chris ^a   Bajwa, Deepinder ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERLINKS; LIBRARY CATALOGS; ON-LINE DATABASES; UNIVERSITY WEB SITES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HTML; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STUDENTS; WEB BROWSERS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 8344268730     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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