Searching for grey literature for systematic reviews: Challenges and benefits

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 221-234

  Mahood, Quenby ^a,b   Van Eerd, Dwayne ^a,c   Irvin, Emma ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Grey literature; Literature searching; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; DATA MINING; LITERATURE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PEER REVIEW; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; SEARCH ENGINE;

DATA MINING; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SEARCH ENGINE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84937144758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1106     Document Type: Article

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