Subject trees on the internet: A new rêle for bibliographic classification?

Journal of Internet Cataloging

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 115-141

  Wheatley, Alan ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britannica; C BIAST; Classification; Excite; Gateways; GO Network; Indexing; Information retrieval; Infoseek; Internet; Internet information retrieval; Look Smart; Lycos Top 5 ; Subject gateways; Subject trees; Yahoo

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953154575     PISSN: 10911367     EISSN: 15287017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J141v02n03_08     Document Type: Note

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