Inner circles and outer reaches: Local and global information-seeking habits of authors in acknowledgment paratext

Information Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Desrochers, Nadine ^a   Pecoskie, Jen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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