Comparison of databases for Iranian articles; Access to evidence on substance abuse and addiction

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 559-565

  Amin Esmaili, Masoumeh ^a   Nedjat, Saharnaz ^b   Motevalian, Abbas ^c   Rahimi Movaghar, Afarin ^a   Majdzadeh, Reza ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Information storage and retrieval; Iran; Methods; Periodicals; Substance related disorders

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; IRAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PUBLICATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IRAN; LINEAR MODELS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 71449090445     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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