Multilinguality in the digital library:A review

The Electronic Library

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 165-181

  Diekema, Anne R ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Digital libraries; Electronic libraries; Information retrieval; Languages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859368467     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640471211221313     Document Type: Review

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