Complexity in indexing systems-abandonment and failure: implications for organizing the internet

Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting

Volumn 33, Issue , 1996, Pages 84-90

  Weinberg, Bella Hass ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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