The archaeologist undeceived: Selecting quality archaeological information from the internet

Informing Science

Volumn 6, Issue , 2003, Pages 221-232

  Sturges, Paul ^a   Griffin, Anne ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Evaluation; Internet; Quality; Web sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 18344389577     PISSN: 15214672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/528     Document Type: Article

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