Guidelines for designing electronic books

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2458, Issue , 2002, Pages 47-60

  Wilson, Ruth ^a   Landoni, Monica ^a   Gibb, Forbes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING;

E-LEARNING CONTENTS; EDUCATIONAL CONTENTS; ELECTRONIC BOOKS; ELECTRONIC MEDIUM; ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS; HARDWARE DESIGN; HIGHER EDUCATION; ON-SCREEN DESIGNS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84923177669     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45747-x_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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