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Research on Information Seeking and Use in Pakistan: An Assessment

Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: The paper describes the beginning of research activity on information needs and presents an analysis of the literature on information needs in Pakistan to discover that no research has so far been published. It reviews 14 student-research projects produced from 1975 to 1982 at the University of the Punjab which have remained unpublished; Laments the loss of impetus given to this topic in 1974-75; and urges the LIS academics and practitioners to promote and conduct research on this critical topic.
Author: Mumtaz Anwar
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1529707259
FWCI: 6.848
Cites: 3
Cited by: 19
Related to: 10