Academic health sciences library Website navigation: An analysis of forty-one Websites and their navigation tools

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 412-420

  Brower, Stewart M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; ELECTRONICS; EVALUATION; HEALTH SCIENCE; INFORMATION; INTERNET; LIBRARY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIBRARY SCIENCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; LIBRARY COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT; LIBRARY SERVICES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16644368892     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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