Literature searching for social science systematic reviews: Consideration of a range of search techniques

Health Information and Libraries Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 114-122

  Papaioannou, Diana ^a   Sutton, Anthea ^a   Carroll, Christopher ^a   Booth, Andrew ^a   Wong, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 77952209022     PISSN: 14711834     EISSN: 14711842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00863.x     Document Type: Article

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