Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence

Searching Skills Toolkit: Finding the Evidence

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-127

  De Brún, Caroline ^a   Pearce Smith, Nicola ^b  

^a Specialist Library for ENT and Audiology   (United Kingdom)

^b Summertown Pavilion ^*  (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84865568244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303599     Document Type: Book

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