Information-seeking behaviors of computer scientists: Challenges for electronic literature search tools

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Athukorala, Kumaripaba ^a   Hoggan, Eve ^a   Lehtioand̈, Anu ^a   Ruotsalo, Tuukka ^b   Jacucci, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Information seeking behavior; Literature search tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904011366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14505001041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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