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Making Search Engines Notice: An Exploratory Study on Discoverability of DSpace Metadata and PDF Files

Le YangTexas Tech University Libraries, Lubbock, Texas, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 147-160 | Received 16 Jan 2016, Accepted 27 Mar 2016, Published online: 10 May 2016

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