Article decay in the digital environment: An analysis of usage of OhioLINK by date of publication, employing deep log methods

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1840-1851

  Huntington, Paul ^a   Nicholas, David ^a   Jamali, Hamid R ^a   Tenopir, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE DECAY; DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT; E-JOURNALS;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LIBRARIES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 33750869267     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20383     Document Type: Article

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