TERI Integrated Digital Library Initiative...The Energy and Resources Institute
Purpose-The paper seeks to describe the setting up of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Digital library, which provides better single window access for researchers to access the structured information from their desktop. The aim of this paper is to share the experience gained and invite comm...
| Publicado en: | Electronic Library Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 366 - 380 |
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| Formato: | pictorial tables/charts Journal Article |
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Emerald Publishing Limited
2006
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| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
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