Information need: introduction to the special issue

Pia Borlund; Ian Ruthven

doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102103

Information need: introduction to the special issue

Pia Borlund, Ian Ruthven

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Information Need is one of the most significant and controversial concepts within Information Science. It is a concept that has one of the most substantial literatures within our field and appears widely across disciplines (Wilson, 2018) and extensively within both the research and practitioner literatures.

Original language	English
Article number	102103
Number of pages	3
Journal	Information Processing and Management
Volume	57
Issue number	2
Early online date	23 Aug 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102103
Publication status	Published - 31 Mar 2020

Keywords

information need
information seeking
information behaviour

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