Information behaviour of humanities PhDs on an information literacy course

Reference Services Review

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 90-107

  Madden, Ronan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Generic skills; Graduate students; Humanities; Information behaviour; Information literacy; Information seeking; Kuhlthau; PhD students; Research support; Sense making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896261692     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/RSR-07-2013-0034     Document Type: Article

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