Multilingual needs and expectations in digital libraries a survey of academic users with different languages

Electronic Library

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 182-196

  Wu, Dan ^a   He, Daqing ^b   Luo, Bo ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Cross cultural studies; Digital libraries; Multilingual needs and expectations; Surveys; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859321868     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640471211221322     Document Type: Article

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