The medline UK filter: development and validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID medline

Health Information and Libraries Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 200-216

  Ayiku, Lynda ^a   Levay, Paul ^a   Hudson, Tom ^a   Craven, Jenny ^a   Barrett, Elizabeth ^a   Finnegan, Amy ^a   Adams, Rachel ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bibliographic databases; information science; information storage and retrieval; literature searching; MEDLINE

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023613934     PISSN: 14711834     EISSN: 14711842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hir.12187     Document Type: Article

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