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MEDLARS AND THE OCCASIONAL RESEARCHER
Author(s) -
McEwin Roderick
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb88108.x
Subject(s) - index (typography) , information retrieval , computer science , degree (music) , library science , world wide web , acoustics , physics
Experience has shown that the degree of benefit of the MEDLARS bibliography varies with the precision with which the researcher can define his request, with whether the topic is completely covered by the journals indexed by MEDLARS, with the number of foreign languages the researcher is prepared to use, and with the suitability of the index terms. MEDLARS is a great advance in the technique of gathering information for biomedical research, and has great potential in Australia.