Open access for the non-English-speaking world: Overcoming the language barrier

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fung, Isaac C H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; REVIEW; SPEECH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 40949129227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-5-1     Document Type: Review

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