'DESCRIPTION' META tags in locally linked web pages

Aslib Proceedings

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 203-216

  Craven, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HTML META-TAGS; META-TAGS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

WEBSITES;

EID: 31244435276     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000007054     Document Type: Article

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