The Use of Information Retrieval Tools by the Postgraduate Students of Higher Educational Institutes of Pakistan

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Main Authors:	Rahoo, Liaquat Ali, Nagar, Muhammad Ali Khan, Bhutto, Arabella
Format:	Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:	en
Published:	2019
Subjects:	Information Retrieval Graduate Students Higher Education Foreign Countries Academic Libraries Library Instruction Information Literacy Search Engines Internet Users (Information) Engineering Education
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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