When vendor statistics are not enough: Determining use of electronic databases

Science and Technology Libraries

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 119-126

  Van Epps, Amy S ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Engineering Libraries Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Collection development statistics; Database statistics; Database use; Scientific and technical libraries statistics

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKETING; STANDARDS; STATISTICS;

ELECTRONIC DATABASES;

LIBRARIES;

EID: 0344193506     PISSN: 0194262X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J122v21n01_10     Document Type: Article

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