What is an author now? Discourse analysis applied to the idea of an author

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1094-1114

  Martínez Ávila, Daniel ^a   Smiraglia, Richard ^b   Lee, Hur Li ^b   Fox, Melodie ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalogues; Epistemology; Postmodernism; Search engines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940908128     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JD-05-2014-0068     Document Type: Article

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