Turning weakness into strength: Strategies for future LIS

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-27

  Nolin, Jan ^a   Åström, Fredrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Information science; Research work; Uncertainty management

Indexed keywords

EID: 74349100962     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411011016344     Document Type: Article

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