Expert search strategies: The information retrieval practices of healthcare information professionals

JMIR Medical Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Russell Rose, Tony ^a   Chamberlain, Jon ^a,b  

^a 3000 Cathedral Hill   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information management; Information systems; Review; Search engine; Surveys and questionnaires

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050499128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.7680     Document Type: Article

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