Networked electronic services usage patterns at four academic health sciences libraries

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 123-133

  Franklin, Brinley ^a   Plum, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Information services; Information technology; University libraries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986159902     PISSN: 14678047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14678040210453555     Document Type: Article

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