'a world of knowledge at your fingertips': The promise, reality, and future directions of on-line information retrieval

Academic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 240-243

  Hersh, William ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SYSTEM; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0033024543     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199903000-00012     Document Type: Review

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