Use of SNSs by the researchers in India: A comparative study of Panjab University and Kurukshetra University

Library Review

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 525-546

  Mahajan, Preeti ^a   Singh, Har ^a   Kumar, Anil ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Facebook; Indian academics; Orkut; Research Gate; Social networking sites; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887343750     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/LR-11-2012-0119     Document Type: Article

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