Electronic books: Challenges for academic libraries

Library Hi Tech

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 332-339

  Lonsdale, Ray ^a   Armstrong, Chris ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Ctr for Info Quality Management   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Acquisitions; Electronic publishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011257431     PISSN: 07378831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/07378830110412113     Document Type: Article

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