A system destabilized: Scholarly books today

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 251-269

  Dalton, Margaret Stieg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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EID: 33747204119     PISSN: 11989742     EISSN: 17101166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/jsp.37.4.251     Document Type: Article

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