Faster, better, or both? Looking at both sides of online question-answering coin

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 48, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kitzie, Vanessa ^a   Shah, Chirag ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Online Q A; Social Q A; Virtual referencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861423897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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