Inventory of research methods for librarianship and informatics

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-90

  Eldredge, Jonathan D ^a,b,c  

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

^b School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LIBRARIAN; LIBRARY; LIBRARY SCIENCE; LITERATURE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PROCESS DESIGN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

HUMANS; LIBRARY SCIENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 1542316898     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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