The issue of free-text versus controlled vocabulary is examined. The history of the issue, which is seen as beginning with the debate over title term indexing in the nineteenth century, is reviewed and questions not satisfactorily addressed by previous research are raised. (Author/EM)

Examines library and information science journal literature coverage by four major indexing and abstracting services: "Information Science Abstracts,""Library and Information Science Abstracts,""Abstract Journal: Informatics,""Library Literature." Current state of indexing coverage is compared with…

Reviews citation networks and discovers that the six major areas of activity in mass communication research are (1) television and politics, (2) sociological studies of journalists, (3) agenda setting, (4) the effects of mass communication, (5) the credibility of various news media, and (6) the characteristics of users and nonusers of mass media.…

Describes the PRECIS (Preserved Context Index System) indexing project carried out in Aurora High School's resource center. (Editor/RK)

Results obtained by processing a corpus of 2675 medical titles indicate that several properties definable in terms of inclusion relationships among terms have significance for vocabulary control. (Author)

This issue of the Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society provides a cumulative index from Volume 1, No. 1 (1972) through Volume 25, No. 1 (1998). Also included are the history of the Midwest History of Education Society, starting with its founding in 1966 (in Editor's Foreword); Officers of the Midwest History of Education Society…

In this report, the School Health Index includes a Planning for Improvement section to help schools develop an action plan for improving student health. A school's results from the Index can help promote health activities in the overall School Improvement Plan. With the growing recognition of the relationship between health and academic…

The present bulletin constitutes a complete author and subject index to the 1,710 entries contained in the 6 numbers of the Record of Current Educational Publications issued from February to December, 1921, inclusive. The following issues of the record appeared during this period in the bulletin series: 1921, no. 3, February, 1921; 1921. no. 4,…

An experiment was conducted to design a corporate author index to a large bibliographic file. The nature of corporate entries necessitates a different search key construction from that of personal names or titles. Derivation of a search key to select distinct corporate entry records is discussed. (7 references) (Author)

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) efforts to develop a uniform catalog of integrated standard indexes from around the world are described. The purpose is to facilitate the search for standards. (SM)

Australian and foreign geological maps that illustrate specified geological features are listed, together with their availability, title, and a short description. Includes citations of detailed sheets for New Zealand, Britain, and North America, and of general sheets for Asia, USSR, Africa, and North America. (AL)

Causes of Boolean failures to retrieve relevant MEDLARS index references are: search formulator failed to include important terms, indexer failed to include important terms, and misunderstanding of user's needs. On the evidence of this test the Probabilistic search is at least a partial solution to these problems. (8 references) (Author/NH)

Microfiche storage and computer-assistance to produce multilingual indexes at the United Nations Headquarters Library are described. (Author/NH)