Is there a need to differentiate between qualitative and quantitative searching strategies for literature reviewing?

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 231-241

  MacKay, Geraldene ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Databases; Discourse; Information technology; Qualitative searching; Quantitative searching

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349087037     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325007077257     Document Type: Article

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