International students' acculturation information seeking: Personality, information needs and uses

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 48, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sin, Sei Ching Joanna ^a   Kim, Kyung Sun ^b   Yang, Jiekun ^b   Park, Joung A ^b   Laugheed, Zac T ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Information behavior; Information needs; International students; Personality; Sources selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861436814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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