Study of the use of CD-ROM databases in Nigerian academic libraries

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 364-369

  Oduwole, A A ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^b University of Agricultre   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LIBRARIES;

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES;

CD-ROM;

EID: 0033659257     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555150002600508     Document Type: Article

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