Predatory online technical journals: A question of ethics

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Dyrud, Marilyn A ^a  

^a OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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