SPIRS, WinSPIRS, and OVID: A comparison of three MEDLINE-on-CD-ROM interfaces

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-70

  Schoonbaert, Dirk ^a  

^a Prnc Leopold Inst Trop Med N   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; SHORT SURVEY;

CD-ROM; DATA DISPLAY; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 0030004885     PISSN: 00257338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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