Knowing where they're going: statistics for online government document access through the OPAC

Online Information Review

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 396-409

  Brown, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Government; Online catalogues; Tracking; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; LIBRARIES; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CATALOG OF GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS (CGP); ONLINE CATALOGS; OPAC; TRACKING;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

EID: 11844249915     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520410570526     Document Type: Article

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