Graduate students appreciate Google Scholar, but still find use for libraries

Electronic Library

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 375-389

  Wu, Ming Der ^a   Chen, Shih Chuan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electronic resources; Google Scholar; Graduate students; Library databases; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907147707     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EL-08-2012-0102     Document Type: Article

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