An analysis of usage of a digital library

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1513, Issue , 1998, Pages 261-277

  Jones, Steve ^a   Cunningham, Sally Jo ^a   McNab, Rodger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

QUERY STRING; SEARCH INTERFACE DESIGNS; SEARCHING STRATEGY; SUMMARY STATISTIC; TRANSACTION LOG; TRANSACTION LOG ANALYSIS; USER ACTIVITY; USER BEHAVIOUR;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84945187152     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49653-x_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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