Collection evaluation for interdisciplinary fields: A comprehensive approach

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 279-284

  Dobson, Cynthia ^a   Kushkowski, Jeffrey D ^b   Gerhard, Kristin H ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030186911     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0099-1333(96)90118-4     Document Type: Article

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23. A convenient access point is available through a gopher server at Yale (URL:gopher:/ /libgopher.yale.edu:70). Web access is available through Yahoo (URL:http:// www.yahoo.com/Reference/Libraries) and other Internet directory services.
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27. An excellent resource is the Scholarly Societies Project world-wide-web server at the University of Waterloo (URL:http:// www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html). It provides gopher or web links to over 500 scholarly societies.
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