Information seeking behaviour of astronomy/astrophysics scientists

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 109-142

  Sahu, Hemant Kumar ^a   Singh, Surya Nath ^b  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Astrophysics; India; Information retrieval; Information searches; Information seeking behaviour; User studies

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS DATA SYSTEMS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EDUCATION AND RESEARCHES; INDIA; INFORMATION SEARCH; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOURS; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLE; USER STUDY;

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; EDUCATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; SURVEYS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84875078307     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012531311313961     Document Type: Article

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