Digital libraries: barriers or gateways to scholarly information?
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Digital libraries: barriers or gateways to scholarly information?
Unprecedented desktop access to scholarly information has been made possible by the introduction of digital libraries. The powerful combination of digital publications, specialist and generalist databases, sophisticated search systems and portals enables scholars and students to rapidly examine a great variety of the literature in their own disciplines and those new to them. Access is available...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Electronic Library
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0264-0473
DOI: 10.1108/02640470310499777