Awareness and use of electronic information resources at the health sciences center of Kuwait University

Library Review

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 150-156

  ur Rehman, Sajjad ^a   Ramzy, Vivian ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Information; Medical libraries; Resources; User involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986091921     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530410526556     Document Type: Article

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