Accessibility and decay of web citations in five open access ISI journals

Internet Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 234-247

  Saberi, M K ^a   Abedi, H ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Iran Public Library Foundation   (Iran)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Decay; Electronic resources; Inter computer links; Internet research; Journals; Online access; Open access; Open access publishing; Uniform resource locators; Web citation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858814241     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662241211214584     Document Type: Article

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