Coming across information serendipitously - Part 1: A process model

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 684-705

  Makri, Stephann ^a   Blandford, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chance; Encountering; Information discovery; Modelling; Research; Serendipitous; Serendipity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865389562     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411211256030     Document Type: Article

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