Web OPAC interfaces: An overview

Electronic Library

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 316-326

  Babu, B Ramesh ^a   O'Brien, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catalogues; Interfaces; Online computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005245897     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640470010354572     Document Type: Article

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