Electronic journals and changes in scholarly article seeking and reading patterns

Aslib Proceedings

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-32

  Tenopir, Carol ^a   King, Donald W ^b   Edwards, Sheri ^a   wu, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic journals; Information retrieval; Libraries; Reading; Scientists; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903093419     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530910932267     Document Type: Article

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