Revisiting and updating the state of library open source software research.
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to revisit and update Palmer and Choi (2014), which conducted a descriptive literature review on open source software (OSS) studies published by the end of February 2013 in the library context. Design/methodology/approach: The same article search and filtering p...
| Publicado en: | Electronic Library Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 137 - 152 |
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| Formato: | research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Emerald Publishing Limited
2023
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