What is wrong with obsolescence?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 812-815

  Alvarez, Pedro ^a   Escalona, Isabel ^a   Pulgarín, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLISHING;

RASCH MODEL;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0033705644     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:9<812::AID-ASI40>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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