Today's readers of scholarly literature want to read more in less time. With this in mind, this study applies the idea of the functional unit to the use of digital documents. A functional unit is the smallest information unit with a distinct function within the Introduction, Methods, Results and Dis
Scholarly use of referenced information in physics journals
β Scribed by Bayer, Bernard ;Kilgour, Frederick G.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 287 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8231
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