The politics of the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA) in digital information policy development

Online Information Review

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 385-391

  Gatten, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Groups; Information; Policy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL INFORMATION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 0036457536     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520210452718     Document Type: Article

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