Organizational usability of digital libraries: Case study of legal research in civil and criminal courts

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1023-1035

  Elliott, Margaret ^a   Kling, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; VIDEOTEX;

LEGAL RESEARCH DIGITAL LIBRARIES (LRDL);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031275037     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199711)48:11<1023::AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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