Modelling information-seeking behaviour of graduate students at Kuwait University

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 430-459

  Al Muomen, Nujoud ^a   Morris, Anne ^b   Maynard, Sally ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graduate students; Graduates; Information literacy; Information retrieval; Information seeking behaviour; Kuwait; Model; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863787624     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411211239057     Document Type: Article

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