Metasearching in Boston College Libraries – a case study of user reactions

New Library World

Volumn 105, Issue , 2004, Pages 69-75

  Tallent, Ed ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

College libraries; Libraries; Research; Search engines; Searching; User involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 9444286900     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074800410515282     Document Type: Article

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