Criteria for children's web portals: A comparison of two studies

Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 45-72

  Large, Andrew ^a   Nesset, Valerie ^a   Beheshti, Jamshid ^a   Bowler, Leanne ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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