Refereed paper. Responding to researchers' and faculty use patterns and perceptions of CDROM services.
This paper provides a brief report on a study of faculty and researchers' use patterns and perceptions of CDROM services at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) Library in Saudi Arabia, as background information to measures taken as a result of the study. The main objectives of the s...
| Publicado en: | Online & CD-Rom Review Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 171 - 181 |
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| Formato: | questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Emerald Publishing Limited
1996 Aug
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