Digital library service quality: What does it look like?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 187-214

  Kyrillidou, Martha ^b   Cook, Colleen ^a   Lincoln, Yvonna ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texas A and M University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

DIGITAL LIBRARY SERVICE QUALITY;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84903504607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-84334-484-1.50010-7     Document Type: Chapter

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