Introduction: The framework for digital library evaluation

Evaluation of Digital Libraries: An Insight Into Useful Applications and Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-13

  Saracevic, Tefko ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

LIBRARY EVALUATION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84873853331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-84334-484-1.50001-6     Document Type: Editorial

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