Do academic link types change over time?

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 707-720

  Payne, Nigel ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Information retrieval; Inter computer links; Internet; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 52449096902     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410810899727     Document Type: Article

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