Moving Communities of Practice Forward: The Challenge for the National Electronic Library for Health and Its Virtual Branch Libraries

Health Informatics Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 241-251

  Yeoman, Alison ^a   Urquhart, Christine ^a   Sharp, Susan ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

National electronic Library for Health; portals; virtual libraries; website evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990394475     PISSN: 14604582     EISSN: 17412811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1460458203094002     Document Type: Article

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