Collection practices for nontraditional online resources among academic health sciences libraries.
Objective: In recent years, individuals and small organizations have developed new online learning and information resources that are often marketed directly to students. In this study, these nontraditional online resources are defined as apps or other online resources that are not available through...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Medical Library Association Vol. 108; no. 2; pp. 253 - 262 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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University of Pittsburgh, University Library System
Apr2020
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