Non-agricultural databases and thesauri: Retrieval of subject headings and non-controlled terms in relation to agriculture

Program

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 258-276

  Bartol, Tomaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Controlled vocabularies; Databases; Indexing; Subject headings; Thesauri

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859902151     PISSN: 00330337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00330331211221873     Document Type: Article

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