Web scale discovery: The user experience

New Library World

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 236-247

  Gross, Julia ^a   Sheridan, Lutie ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Australia; Information retrieval; University libraries; Usage; Web sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957658103     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074801111136275     Document Type: Article

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