Assessing information literacy among German psychology students

Reference Services Review

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 660-674

  Leichner, Nikolas ^a   Peter, Johannes ^a   Mayer, Anne Kathrin ^a   Krampen, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

College students; Germany; graduate students; Information literacy; literature; search; Test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886538472     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/RSR-11-2012-0076     Document Type: Article

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