Revisiting digital libraries quality: A multiple-item scale approach

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 214-236

  Vinagre, Maria Helena ^a   Pinto, Leonor Gaspar ^b   Ochôa, Paula ^b  

^a ISEIT Instituto Superior de Estudos Interculturais e Transdisciplinares Jean Piaget ^*  (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Portugal; Service quality; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555196039     PISSN: 14678047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14678041111196677     Document Type: Article

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