Portals for undergraduate subject searching: Are they worth it?

Portal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 481-490

  Nichols, Jane ^a   Mellinger, Margaret ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 36448958018     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2007.0052     Document Type: Review

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