Changes in productivity of Spanish university libraries

Omega

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 578-588

  Simon, Jose ^a   Simon, Clara ^b   Arias, Alicia ^c  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bootstrap technique; Case study; Library productivity; Malmquist productivity index

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551680588     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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