Faculty begin to replace textbooks with "freely" accessible online resources

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 169-179

  Buczynski, James A ^a  

^a SENECA COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Course packs; Course reserves; e Books; Learning object repositories; Persistent links; Textbooks; Wikibooks

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047268018     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J136v11n04_11     Document Type: Article

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