Health and medical news on the web: Comparing the results of news-providing web resources

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 17-40

  Cunningham, Kay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Health news; Medical news; News; News aggregators; News Web sites; Really Simple Syndication; Rich Site Summary; RSS

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28844473968     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J115v24n04_02     Document Type: Review

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