Is Information-Seeking Behavior of Doctoral Students Changing?: A Review of the Literature (2010–2015)

New Review of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 78-106

  Spezi, Valérie ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

doctoral students; information behaviors; information seeking; researchers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958840504     PISSN: 13614533     EISSN: 17407834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2015.1127831     Document Type: Review

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