Reviewing the World Wide Web - Theory versus reality

Library Trends

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 748-768

  Sweetland, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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EID: 0034350075     PISSN: 00242594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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