Indexing and abstracting service
Encyclopedia
An abstracting service is a service that provides abstracts of publications, often on a subject or group of related subjects, usually on a subscription basis. An indexing service is a service that assign descriptors and other kinds of access points to document
s. The word indexing service is today mostly used about computer programs, but may also cover services providing back-of-the-book index
es, journal indexes and related kinds of indexes (see index (publishing)
. An indexing and abstracting service is a service, that provides shortening or summarizing of documents and assigning of descriptors for referencing documents.
The product is often an abstract journal or a bibliographic index
, which may be a subject bibliography or a bibliographic database
.
Guidelines for indexing and abstracting, including the evaluation of such services, are given in the literature of Library and information science
.
Document
The term document has multiple meanings in ordinary language and in scholarship. WordNet 3.1. lists four meanings :* document, written document, papers...
s. The word indexing service is today mostly used about computer programs, but may also cover services providing back-of-the-book index
Back-of-the-book index
-Introduction:A back-of-the-book index is a collection of entries - often alphabetically arranged - which are made in order to allow users to locate information in a given book ....
es, journal indexes and related kinds of indexes (see index (publishing)
Index (publishing)
An index is a list of words or phrases and associated pointers to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document...
. An indexing and abstracting service is a service, that provides shortening or summarizing of documents and assigning of descriptors for referencing documents.
The product is often an abstract journal or a bibliographic index
Bibliographic index
A bibliographic index is a bibliography, an aid to search the literature of, for example, an academic field or discipline , to works of a specific literary form or published in a specific format , or to the analyzed contents of a serial publication...
, which may be a subject bibliography or a bibliographic database
Bibliographic database
A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents, books, etc...
.
Guidelines for indexing and abstracting, including the evaluation of such services, are given in the literature of Library and information science
Library and information science
Library and information science is a merging of the two fields library science and information science...
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See also
- BibliographyBibliographyBibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology...
- Citation indexCitation indexA citation index is a kind of bibliographic database, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. The first citation indices were legal citators such as Shepard's Citations...
- Guide to information sourcesGuide to information sourcesA Guide to information sources is a kind of metabibliography...
- List of academic databases and search engines
External links
- American Society of Indexers: http://www.asindexing.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
- Society of Indexers (UK): http://www.indexers.org.uk/