Introduction to indexing and abstracting / Donald B. Cleveland and Ana D. Cleveland.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-276) and index.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Making an Index -- The Need for Indexes -- The Nature of Indexes -- Makers of Indexes -- A Brief Historical Perspective -- A Note to the Neophyte Indexer -- Chapter 2. The Nature of Information -- The Information Age -- A Natural Phenomenon -- The Study of Information -- A Basic Resource -- Mechanisms for Information Preservation and Transmittal -- Chapter 3. The Organization of Information -- The Information Cycle -- The Basic Information Retrieval Model -- The Information Is Created and Acquired for the System -- Knowledge Records Are Analyzed and Tagged by Sets of Index Terms -- The Knowledge Records Are Stored Physically and the Index Terms Are Stored into a Structured File -- The User's Query Is Tagged with Sets of Index Terms and Then Is Matched Against the Tagged Records -- Matched Documents Are Retrieved for Review -- Feedback May Lead to Several Reiterations of the Search -- Classification and Indexing -- The Relationship of Indexing, Abstracting, and Searching -- Using Indexes and Abstracts -- Chapter 4. Vocabulary Control -- The Purpose of Controlled Vocabulary -- The Nature of Indexing Languages -- Authority Lists -- Generic Vocabularies -- The Thesaurus -- Thesaurus Construction -- Term Relationships -- Term Forms -- Thesaurus Evaluation -- Chapter 5. Types of Indexes and Abstracts -- Types of Indexes -- Book Indexes -- Citation Indexes -- Classified Indexes -- Coordinate Indexes -- Cumulative Indexes -- Faceted Indexes -- First-line Indexes -- Hypermedia Indexes -- Internet Indexes -- Multimedia Indexes -- Periodical Indexes -- Permuted Title Indexes -- String Indexes -- Word Indexes -- Types of Abstracts -- Indicative Abstracts -- Informative Abstracts -- Critical Abstracts -- Classifying Abstracts by Use -- Classifying Abstracts by Author -- Structured Abstracts -- Examples from Indexing Tools -- Examples from Abstracting Tools -- Examples of Thesauri -- Chapter 6. The Indexing Process -- Aboutness -- Steps in Indexing -- Recording of Bibliographic Data -- Content Analysis -- The Title -- The Abstract -- The Text Itself -- The References Section -- Some Key Points -- Subject Determination -- Locators -- Term Selection -- Entry Points -- Depth of Indexing -- Exhaustivity -- Specificity -- Making Choices -- Display of Indexes -- Chapter 7. The Abstracting Process -- The Purpose of an Abstract -- Coverage -- Economic Constraints -- Significant Material -- Publication Source -- Subject Interest of the Users -- Steps in Abstracting -- Step 1 -- The Title -- Author Affiliation -- Funding Agency -- Publication Source -- Foreign Languages -- Editing -- Evaluation of Abstracts -- The Writing Process -- Chapter 8. Indexing and Abstracting a Document -- Example of a Technical Paper -- Abstracting the Document -- Indexing the Document -- Chapter 9. Book Indexing -- The Nature of Book Indexes -- Steps in Indexing -- Index Terms -- Name Entries -- Subject Entries -- Additional Details -- Ninety-Nine "Dos-and-Don'ts" -- Chapter 10. Book Indexing Example -- Example Book Chapter -- Indexing the Chapter -- Chapter 11. Indexing Special Subject Areas and Formats -- Background -- Special Subject Areas -- Science -- Social Sciences -- Humanities -- Special Formats -- Newspapers -- Nonprint Forms -- Images -- Chapter 12. Evaluation of Indexing -- The General Problem -- Beginning with the User -- Relevance -- Recall and Precision -- Effects of Exhaustivity and Specificity -- Index Quality -- Evaluating Abstracts -- Standards -- Editing -- Chapter 13. Indexing and Abstracting Services -- Bringing in the Computers -- Types of Databases -- Online Services -- Searching the Database -- The Future -- Chapter 14. The Use of Computers -- The Computer Tool -- The Script -- Indexing with a Computer -- Types of Indexing Software -- Indexing Software -- Automatic Indexing and Abstracting -- Chapter 15. Indexing and the Internet -- Searching the Web -- Organization of Information -- Metadata and the Web -- Dublin Core -- OCLC CORC -- CORC Resource Record Database -- CORC Authority Database -- CORC Pathfinder Database -- CORC Web Dewey -- Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) -- Promises and Pitfalls -- Chapter 16. Ninety-Nine Web Resources for Indexers and Abstractors -- Online Bookstores -- Search Services -- Indexing Services -- Dictionaries and Dictionary Directories -- Multireference Resources and Tools -- E-Mail Reference Sites -- Virtual Libraries -- Special Formats and Subjects Indexing -- Standards -- Indexing Software -- Publishers -- Indexing Organizations -- Indexing-Related Discussion Groups -- Indexing and the Web -- Chapter 17. The Profession -- Education and Training -- Job Opportunities -- The Role of Research -- The Future.