Impact evaluation, professional practice, and policy making

New Library World

Volumn 105, Issue , 2004, Pages 33-46

  Johnson, Ian M ^a   Williams, Dorothy A ^a   Wavell, Caroline ^b   Baxter, Graeme ^b  

^a Department of Information Management ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archives; Librarians; Libraries; Library and information networks; Research; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986166633     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074800410515255     Document Type: Article

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