Taking discovery systems for a test drive

Journal of Web Librarianship

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 199-219

  Becher, Melissa ^a   Schmidt, Kari ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquabrowser; Discovery systems; Discovery tools; Students; Usability testing; User preferences; Worldcat local

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052239015     PISSN: 19322909     EISSN: 19322917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19322909.2011.583134     Document Type: Review

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