PubMed searches by Dutch-speaking nursing students

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1538-1552

  Vanopstal, Klaar ^a,b   Stichele, Robert Vander ^c   Laureys, Godelieve ^b   Buysschaert, Joost ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

biomedical information; information and reference skills; language barriers; query formulation; user expertise

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATION; INFORMATION AND REFERENCE SKILLS; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; QUERY FORMULATION; USER EXPERTISE;

NURSING; SURVEYS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84864402243     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22694     Document Type: Article

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