Bibliographic Index Coverage of a Multidisciplinary Field

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1305-1312

  Walters, William H ^a   Wilder, Esther I ^b,c  

^a ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIDISCIPLINARY DATABASES;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0344012566     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10337     Document Type: Article

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