Measuring students' information literacy skills through abstracting: Case study from a library & information science perspective

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 132-154

  Pinto, Maria ^a   Fernández Ramos, Andrés ^b   Doucet, Anne Vinciane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b CSIC Humanities Center Library

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EID: 42149153813     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.69.2.132     Document Type: Article

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