How students use e-books - reading or referring?

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Noorhidawati, A ^a   Gibb, Forbes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; E book features; E book usage; E books; Electronic books

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952512614     PISSN: 13946234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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