Federated searching: Instruction and promotion on ARL libraries' web sites

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 279-296

  Robbins, Sarah ^a   McCain, Cheryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Association of Research Libraries; Federated searching; Online instruction; Web sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948853821     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J136v12n03_03     Document Type: Article

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