The Declining Value of Subscription-based Abstracting and Indexing Services in the New Knowledge Dissemination Era

Serials Review

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 79-85

  Chen, Xiaotian ^a  

^a BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77952880674     PISSN: 00987913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.serrev.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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