Benchmarking and library quality maturity

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 75-82

  Wilson, Frankie ^a   Town, J Stephen ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Libraries; Quality; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746686246     PISSN: 14678047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14678040610679461     Document Type: Article

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