Delving deeper into evaluation: Exploring cognitive authority on the Internet

Reference Services Review

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 242-254

  Fritch, John W ^a   Cromwell, Robert L ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cromwell Consulting and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Authority; Cognition; Evaluation; Information; Internet; Literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986099148     PISSN: 00907324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00907320210435509     Document Type: Article

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