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Weinberg, B.H.: ¬The body of a reference work in relation to its index : an analysis of wordsmanship (1996)
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- 8. 3.1997 20:22:25
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- Indexer. 20(1996) no.1, S.18-22
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Mulvany, N.C.: ¬The author and the index (1994)
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- Abstract
- Extracts from Mulvany's newly published volume, Indexing books. Reviews the strengths and weaknesses of authors and of professional indexers, and considers the relationship between author and indexer
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Wallis, E.; Lavall, C.: Naming the indexer : where credit is due (1995)
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- Abstract
- Traces attittudes over the years to naming the authors of an index, and identifies the arguments for and against placing the name with the printed index
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Bell, H.K.: Whom should we aim to please? (1996)
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- Abstract
- Considers the views of five different classes concerned with indexes: users, subjects, authors, publishers, and regulators with their sometimes incompatible expectations and demands
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Bell, H.K.: Perilous powers in authorial hands (1999)
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- Abstract
- About the dabger of automatic indexing software in the hands of authors who do not understand the principles of indexing
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Liddy, E.D.: ¬The art of back-of-the-book indexes (1991-92)
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- Abstract
- A mail survey of 433 authors produced data on the status of the indexers of their books. The collection of reliable data was to determine whether differences are discernable among indexes according to the status who created them
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Jörgensen, C.; Liddy, E.D.: Information access or information anxiety? : an explanatory evaluation of book index features (1996)
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- Abstract
- The authors conducted a controlled user study in both print and electronic environments and present here a subset of results from index use in the print format
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Crawley, J.; Adams, C.: InfoAccess Project : comparing print, CD-ROM, and inhouse indexes (1991)
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- Abstract
- Describes the InfoAccess Project at the Univ of Saskatchewan Libraries which compared searching of manual and automated indexes by 22 undergraduate psychology students to determine their searching preferences by ranking 'Psychological abstracts' in 3 formats: print, CD-ROM and a locally mounted tape service called InfoAccess. Their satisfaction regarding the physical environment, equipment, and instructional aids was also recorded. Users preferred to search with CD-ROM, but found InfoAccess to be an acceptable alternative
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Diodato, V.: Duplicate entries versus see cross references in back-of-the book indexes (1994)
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- Considers whether, when there is a choice, a back-of-book indexer should use a duplicate entry or a see reference. Guidelines suggest that it is preferable to use the duplicate entry if it would not add to the length or complexity of the index. Studies 1.100 see references in 202 back-of-book indexes and concludes that 22% of the see references should have been replaced by duplicate entries. Failure to select a duplicate entry instead of a see reference occurs most frequently in science and techology books and in indexes with no subheadings
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Shuttleworth, C.: Marot, Hofstadter, index (1998)
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- Indexer. 21(1998) no.1, S.22-23
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Schroeder, K.A.: Layered indexing of images (1998)
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- 9. 4.2000 17:22:00
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Bell, H.: On the indexability of butterflies (1992)
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- Most publishers, who are cost-conscious, and the majority of authors, who are creativity-conscious, oppos indexes for fiction. However, maintains, that there is a case to be made for the indexing of serious fiction, whose readers have the same needs for information retrieval with regard to characters, places and events, as readers of biographies and histories
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Collins, F.H.; Robertson, M.: ¬The making of an index (1993)
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- Reprints of two early texts on indexing by Frederick Howard Collins: 'Making of an index' from the 2nd ed. of Charkes T. Jacobi's 'Some notes on books and printing: a guide for authors and others (1902)' and 'Subject indexes: some principles which underlie them' prepared for the Royal Society in 1986 for participants in a conference on an International Catalogue of Science. Michael Robertson has edited the texts and provides a background to them
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Weinberg, B.H.: Indexes: a chapter from The Chicago manual of Style, 14th edition : a review (1994)
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- The chapter on indexes in The Chicago Manual of Style serves as a standard for index format and as a self teaching tool for authors and novice indexers. Reviews the 14th ed. for logical sequence, accordance of the guidelines and rules with those of other manuals and authorities, and the quality of its index. It is found wanting in all these areas, but contains much useful information on the indexing process and book index format
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Diodato, V.; Gandt, G.: Back of book indexes and the characteristics of author and nonauthor indexing : report of an exploratory study (1991)
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- Abstract
- This study examined the content of back of book indexes produced by 37 authors and 27 nonauthors. The purpose was to see if differences between the two groups of indexers could be discerned by counting the occurrence of characteristics in their indexes. The nonauthors, many or all of whom were probably professional indexers, provided significantly more index pages, modified headings, and modifiers than did the author indexers. The two groups were almost identical in their frequency of cross reference use. The simple counting technique is a feasible method. It should be applied to othe populations of back of book indexes to determine how generalizable are the author/nonauthor differences seen here
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Jones, R.: Indexing the British Medical Journal (1994)
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- As a general medical journal, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) contains a wide range of subject matter, and many types of information need to be incorporated in its semi-annual index, Index Medicus vocabulary can be used for clinical articles, but non-clinical matter presents problems of soft language. A weekly publication, the BMJ runs to about 1.600 pages a volume; so succint indexing is important, as is keeping to schedule. The number of authors and the vagueness of the journal users present particular problems that can be ameliorated by the design of the index. Medicine is a useful adjunct for subject access. Both the journal and the index have changed during a decade in which social and political aspects of medicine have assumed greater importance
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Wellisch, H.H.: Book and periodical indexing (1994)
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- The indexing of both books and periodicals must fulfill certain basic functions, prescribed by national and international standards. Regarding the requirements of their indexing, verbal texts in the form of books and periodicals form a continuum ranging from books written by a single author (or a small team), books written by multiple authors, encyclopedias, periodical volumes, and articles in periodicals. Problems of indexing policy, indexing language, depth of indexing, author's names, titles, the physical form of indexes, and indexes to single volumes of periodicals and cumulative indexes are discussed. Large bibliographic databases do not use fully automatic indexing systems, which are incapable of fulfilling all basic indexing functions. Rather, they employ teams of indexers supported by automated indexing aids for the execution of clerical tasks, vocabulary control, and other assistance for the intellectual tasks performed by indexers. Electronic journals are unlikely to be indexed because of the instability of their texts. The principal features of verbal texts and their indexes are displayed schematically
