Information Seeking and Mediated Searching Study. Part 3. Successive Searching.

Spink, Amanda; Wilson, T. D.; Ford, Nigel; Foster, Allen; Ellis, David

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ERIC Number: EJ650932

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Publication Date: 2002

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Information Seeking and Mediated Searching Study. Part 3. Successive Searching.

Spink, Amanda; Wilson, T. D.; Ford, Nigel; Foster, Allen; Ellis, David

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v53 n9 p716-27 Jul 2002

Discussion of mediated successive searches conducted by intermediaries using the Dialog online service focuses on reasons, frequency, and characteristics of successive searches. Data is based on a longitudinal study conducted in the United Sates and the United Kingdom that investigated the processes of mediated information retrieval searching during human information-seeking processes. (LRW)

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Longitudinal Studies, Online Searching, Search Intermediaries, Search Strategies

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom; United States

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