From the visual book to the WEB book: The importance of good design

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

Volumn 1923, Issue , 2000, Pages 305-314

  Landoni, M ^a   Wilson, R ^a   Gibb, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING;

ELECTRONIC BOOKS; ELECTRONIC FORMS; GOOD DESIGNS; PAPER BOOK; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS; VISUAL COMPONENTS; WEB BOOK;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

EID: 84937419755     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45268-0_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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