Usability Testing of a Large, Multidisciplinary Library Database: Basic Search and Visual Search
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عنوان ژورنال: Information Technology and Libraries
سال: 2006
ISSN: 2163-5226,0730-9295
DOI: 10.6017/ital.v25i3.3345