The effects of spacing and titles on judgments of the effectiveness of structured abstracts

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2335-2340

  Hartley, James ^a   Betts, Lucy ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TEXT PROCESSING;

STRUCTURED ABSTRACTS;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 38049126235     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20718     Document Type: Article

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