The long tail: A usage analysis of pre-1993 print biomedical journal literature

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-27

  Starr, Susan ^b   Williams, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY; DATA BASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIBRARIAN; LIBRARY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

CALIFORNIA; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIBRARIES, DIGITAL; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 39449117676     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.96.1.20     Document Type: Article

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