Exploring support for the unconquerable barriers in information seeking
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Exploring Support for the Unconquerable Barriers in Information Seeking
Individuals are often faced with various types of barriers and failures when they look for information. They sometimes fail to locate their desired information after trying or even exhausting all of their known sources. Research has mostly focused on the barriers people face on the Web, but experiences with information seeking failures—particularly those that involve offline channels in real li...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2373-9231
DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301106