Strategies for integrating information literacy and academic literacy: Helping undergraduate students make the most of scholarly articles

Library Management

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 525-535

  MacMillan, Margy ^a   MacKenzie, Allison ^a  

^a MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information literacy; Information searches; Knowledge survey; Public relations; Reading; Research methods; Scholarly articles; Students; Undergraduates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867691820     PISSN: 01435124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01435121211279885     Document Type: Article

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