The immediacy effect - Then and now

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 601-608

  Meadows, Jack ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Literature; Records management; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644227815     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410410568115     Document Type: Review

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