What impact do healthcare digital libraries have? An evaluation of national resource of infection control at the point of care using the Impact-ED framework

International Journal on Digital Libraries

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 77-90

  Kostkova, Patty ^a   Madle, Gemma ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital library; Digital library evaluation; Impact evaluation; Impact on clinical practice; National Resource of Infection Control; Triangulation; Weblogs analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874990746     PISSN: 14325012     EISSN: 14321300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00799-012-0101-4     Document Type: Article

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