Patently Obvious: The place for patents in information literacy in the sciences

Research Strategies

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 149-161

  MacMillan, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information literacy; Patent literature; Patents; Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749253372     PISSN: 07343310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resstr.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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