A new generation of tools for search, recovery and quality evaluation of World Wide Web medical resources

Online Information Review

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 138-143

  Aguillo, Isidro ^a  

^a Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Health care; Information retrieval; Information services; Internet; Quality control

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC POLICY; QUALITY CONTROL; SEARCH ENGINES;

AUTOMATIC TOOLS; META TAGS; POLICY MAKERS; TRACING AGENTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0039051510     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520010330319     Document Type: Review

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