Deal or no deal? Evaluating big deals and their journals

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 178-193

  Blecic, Deborah D ^a   Wiberley, Stephen E ^b   Fiscella, Joan B ^c   Bahnmaier Blaszczak, Sara ^e   Lowery, Rebecca ^d  

^a Life and Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Social Sciences   (United States)

^c Rebecca Lowery is Map and Data Services Librarian   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875851123     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl-300     Document Type: Article

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