Case Study: Developing the PLOS Thesaurus.
A thesaurus should quietly streamline website operations behind the scenes but can become an obstacle if it is inadequate or falls out of date, the situation the Public Library of Science (PLOS) realized in 2011. The organization sought help from Access Innovations, Inc., to bring its thesaurus up t...
| Publicado en: | Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 22 - 26 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2012/Jan2013
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