Systematic searching for theory to inform systematic reviews: Is it feasible? Is it desirable?

Health Information and Libraries Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 220-235

  Booth, Andrew ^a   Carroll, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bibliographic databases; Database searching; Information retrieval; Literature searching; Review and systematic search

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LITERATURE; PROCEDURES; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84939256438     PISSN: 14711834     EISSN: 14711842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hir.12108     Document Type: Article

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