Points of view: Conventional and 'neo-conventional' access and navigation in digital collections

Journal of Internet Cataloging

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-41

  McKiernan, Gerry ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CyberStacks(sm); Digitization; Information visualization; Internet access and organization; Natural Language Processing; SnowCap(sm)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001918329     PISSN: 10911367     EISSN: 15287017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J141v02n01_04     Document Type: Review

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