The impact of electronic resources on humanities graduate student theses

Online Information Review

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 457-472

  Wu, Ming Der ^a   Chen, Shih Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Graduates; Information research; University libraries

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; E-BOOKS; E-JOURNALS; ELECTRONIC FORMATS; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; GRADUATE STUDENTS; GRADUATES; INFORMATION RESEARCH; PRINT MATERIALS; UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; LIBRARIES; RESEARCH; STUDENTS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 77956631372     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521011054071     Document Type: Article

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