"Linkrot" and the usefulness of web site bibliographies

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 273-277

  Taylor, Mary K ^a   Hudson, Diane ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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