The WEB Book experiments in electronic textbook design

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 454-477

  Wilson, Ruth ^a   Landoni, Monica ^a   Gibb, Forbes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Books; Design; Electronic publishing; Evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043208846     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410310485721     Document Type: Article

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