Exploring issues in the conduct of website searching and other online sources for systematic reviews: How can we be systematic?

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Stansfield, Claire ^a   Dickson, Kelly ^a   Bangpan, Mukdarut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information management; Information retrieval; Online searching; Systematic reviews; Website searching

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NOTE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INTERNET; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PUBLISHING; SEARCH ENGINE;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PUBLICATION BIAS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84999274115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-016-0371-9     Document Type: Note

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