Enhancing online catalog searches with an electronic referencer

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 203-219

  Poo, Danny C C ^a   Toh, Tech Kang ^a   Khoo, Christopher S G ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); ONLINE SEARCHING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ELECTRONIC REFERENCER; ONLINE CATALOG SEARCHES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034543322     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(00)00071-6     Document Type: Article

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