Tales on the Internet: Making it up as you go along

Aslib Proceedings

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-10

  Frost, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 19544364303     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006996     Document Type: Article

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