Coping with the biomedical literature
Subtitle: a primer for the scientist and the clinician
By: edited by Kenneth S. Warren.
Contributors: Warren, Kenneth S.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Medical literature.; Information retrieval systems.; Libraries, Medical.; Information services.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
"Praeger special studies. Praeger scientific."
Table of contents: value: The structure of the information system: The development and structure of the biomedical literature / Derek de Solla Price. Selective aspects of the biomedical literature / Kenneth S. Warren. The ecology of the biomedical literature and information retrieval / William Goffman; value: Producing biomedical information: First, do no harm / Eli Chernin. Journals / Arnold S. Relman. Reviewing reviews / Edward H. Kass; value: Utilizing biomedical information: How to read a paper / Oscar D. Ratnoff. Evaluation, requirements for scientific proof / Frederick Mosteller. Evaluation, requirements for clinical application / David L. Sackett; value: Sources of biomedical information: The National Library of Medicine / Martin M. Cummings. The Institute for Scientific Information / Eugene Garfield. Libraries and how to use them / William K. Beatty.