In Praise of Mr. S. Platter and His Marvelous, Magnificent CD ROM Laser Disc Index for ERIC and PSYCHLIT.

Fuente: ERIC Institute of Education Sciences

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Huffman, Robert F.
Format:	Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:	en
Published:	1987
Subjects:	Academic Libraries Autoinstructional Aids Higher Education Instructional Materials Library Instruction Online Searching Optical Data Disks Relevance (Information Retrieval) Search Strategies User Needs (Information)
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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