Evidence-based librarianship: Searching for the needed EBL evidence

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1-18

  Eldredge, Jonathan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based librarianship; Evidence based medicine; Health sciences librarianship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LIBRARY; LIBRARY SCIENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; LIBRARY SCIENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034279827     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: 15409597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J115v19n03_01     Document Type: Article

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