Is accuracy everything? A study of two serials directories

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 45-49

  Grimes, Marybeth ^a   Morris, Sara E ^a,b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33846279044     PISSN: 10949054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/rusq.46n2.45     Document Type: Review

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4. EBSCO Information Services, The Serials Directory, www.epnet.com/academic/serialsdirectory.asp (accessed Apr. 17, 2004).
5. Bopp and Smith, Reference and Information Services.
6. Katz, Introduction to Reference Work.
7. Ibid., 118-19.
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12. Ibid.
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