Creating Order: The Role of Heuristics in Website Selection

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 23-46

  Spievak, Elizabeth R ^a   Hayes Bohanan, Pamela ^a  

^a BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

heuristics; library instruction; order effects; source literacy

Indexed keywords

HEURISTICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

EID: 84969793227     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10875301.2016.1149541     Document Type: Article

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