Metadata effectiveness in internet discovery: An analysis of digital collection metadata elements and internet search engine keywords

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 7-19

  Yang, Le ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84988735800     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.77.1.7     Document Type: Article

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