Expert Googling: Best practices and advanced strategies for using Google in health sciences libraries

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-107

  Ripple, Ammon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert searching; Health sciences libraries; Information retrieval; Search hedges; Web search engines

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746708110     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: 15409597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J115v25n02_08     Document Type: Article

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