The Research Commons: a new creature in the library?

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 116-130

  Daniels, William ^a   Darch, Colin ^a   Jager, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Assessment; Information facilities; Research libraries; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954655273     PISSN: 14678047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14678041011064043     Document Type: Article

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