The Emerging engineering scholar: A citation analysis of theses and dissertations at western michigan university

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship

Volumn 56, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Eckel, Edward J ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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