Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service, and Google Scholar: Comparing Search Performance Using User Queries
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Andrew D. Asher is Assessment Librarian in the Indiana University Libraries at Indiana University Bloomington; e-mail: [email protected]. Lynda M. Duke is Academic Outreach Librarian, Associate Professor, and Suzanne Wilson is Library Technology and Resources Director, in The Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. © 2013 Andrew D. Asher, Lynda M...
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تاریخ انتشار 2015