Coping with a MEDLIB-L service outage

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 379-385

  Brown, Christine D ^a   MacCall, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONSUMER; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; LITERATURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANECDOTES; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 8744279430     PISSN: 00257338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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