Teaching systematic searching methods to public health graduate students: Repeated library instruction sessions correlate with better assignment scores

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 106-113

  Pell, John ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 85021735197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1715720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18438/B8707K     Document Type: Article

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