Managing digital information resources in Africa: Preserving the integrity of scholarship

International Information and Library Review

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 34-43

  Kanyengo, Christine Wamunyima ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Access to knowledge; Africa; Digital knowledge resources; Knowledge preservation; Libraries; Scholarship

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649106057     PISSN: 10572317     EISSN: 10959297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iilr.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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