Using doctoral dissertations for a new understanding of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ni, Chaoqun ^a   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disciplinarity; Dissertations; Interdisciplinarity; ProQuest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878597862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504901332     Document Type: Article

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