Users, end-users, and end-user searchers of online information: a historical overview.
Discusses the changing relationships between information professionals - vendors, database producers, searchers - and end-users, during the last three decades. Most of the time, the industry was quite vague as to who exactly the end-users were, and consequently several different definitions were use...
| Publicado en: | Online Information Review Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 92 - 101 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Emerald Publishing Limited
2002
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