What's the use? The value of eresource usage statistics

New Library World

Volumn 103, Issue , 2002, Pages 39-47

  Peters, Thomas A ^a  

^a CIC Center for Library Initiatives Committee on Institutional Cooperation   (United States)

Author keywords

Libraries; Standardisation; Statistics; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986021408     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074800210415050     Document Type: Article

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