Finding bibliographic information about books on the WWW: an evaluation of available sources

The World Wide Web offers different systems to retrieve information about published books in the form of online catalogues of libraries and popular online bookstores, and subscription‐based bibliographic databases. The paper determines the usefulness of bibliographic information offered by such systems. For the quantitative evaluation, random tests with titles of known books were executed. The quality of the resulting output was evaluated on the basis of a set of criteria.

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Year of publication:	2004
Authors:	Somers, Maike ; Nieuwenhuysen, Paul
Published in:	Online Information Review. - Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISSN 1468-4535, ZDB-ID 2014462-3. - Vol. 28.2004, 1, p. 33-42
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Subject:	Books \| Online databases \| Monographs \| Bibliographies \| Internet \| Worldwide web

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	research-article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1108/14684520410522439 [DOI]
Source:	Other ZBW resources

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