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

Maike Somers (Maike Somers is Manager, Public Library, Niel, Belgium.)
Paul Nieuwenhuysen (Paul Nieuwenhuysen is Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium and Guest Professor in the Postgraduate Interuniversity Study Programmes in Information and Library Science at the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.)

Online Information Review

ISSN: 1468-4527

Article publication date: 1 February 2004

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Abstract

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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Somers, M. and Nieuwenhuysen, P. (2004), "Finding bibliographic information about books on the WWW: an evaluation of available sources", Online Information Review, Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/14684520410522439

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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