Why are online catalogs still hard to use?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: current research in online public access systems
Framing social life in theory and research
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Source preferences in the context of seeking problem-specific information
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Information Science
The dark side of information: overload, anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies
Journal of Information Science
How and why do college students use Wikipedia?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information literacy: An exploration
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Workplace experiences of information literacy
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Finding more trustworthy answers: Various trustworthiness factors in question answering
Journal of Information Science
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