Cognitive barriers to information seeking: A conceptual analysis

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 613-623

  Savolainen, Reijo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Barriers to information seeking; cognitive barriers; information seeking

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

COGNITIVE BARRIERS; CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION SEEKING PROCESS; INFORMATION SOURCES; SELF EFFICACY; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84942087596     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551515587850     Document Type: Article

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