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A Unified Index to Science
A Unified Index to Science
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WelIknown examples are the Industrial Arts Index and Die Bibliographie der Fremdsprachigen zeitschriften Literatur. New and unique aspects of the Unified Index A Unified Index to Science differs from existing indexes in scope.
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Mass production is the best known method for reducing product costs. Numerous other by-products of the proposed plan, not to be discussed here, include production of detailed indexes to individual journals, such as cumulated indexes in English to individual foreign language journals, indexes classified according to whatever system is desired, polylingual indexes, and more detailed indexing for the existing indexes, both foreign and domestic.
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The Citation Index has been discussed in previously published articles (3-5,15~. However, this is the first time its use for consolidating references to and from the various abstracting services has been recommendecl.
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Compiling the Unified Index to Science In two published papers I have discussed specific techniques for the mechanical compilation of printed indexes and subject heading lists (7,8~. In a paper specifically prepared for this International Conference, now attached as Appendix II, the same techniques are cliscussed in connection with the compilation of classified indexes from alphabetic indexing.
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This would reduce the space and paper requirements by a factor of 16 to I It would more than offset the increased size of an index combining entries from a multiplicity of subject indexes.
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Since each article and its associated index entries contain article identification it is possible to combine all index entries for individual articles regardless of the source. In this way the different indexing approaches of each indexing service would be utilized to advantage for more detailed indexing.
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Unabstracted articles would be located indirectly by means of the Author Index and Citation Index. References for unabstracted articles would appear in the Citation Index listings for earlier articles previously abstracted and indexed.
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The proposed system, particularly if it includes a Citation Index helps to overcome the difficulties of a changing nomenclature (3~. Legislation,government, and complacency In 1952 Avias (13)
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GARFIELD, E Breaking the Subject Index Barrier A Citation Index for Chemical Patents.
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reverses excitatory responses due to splanchnic nerve stimulation, (iii) reverses presser effect of a generalized direct discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, (iv)
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indexes if one type of indexing could become the by-product of another. Project work on the preparation of subject heading lists clearly demonstrated the ease of converting alphabetic subject heading lists to categorized or classified lists of terms by the use of punched card equipment (8~.
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By use ofthe classified list ofterms appearing in the Subject Heading Authority List—unfortunately the classified list is only available to Current List staff he could determine all those subject headings pertaining to the heart and then locate these headings in the alphabetic subject index to the CLML. The classified index saves him the time of searching each of these terms individually.
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473 . EMBRYOLOGY AORTIC ARCH DERIV IN ADULT ARTERIES DISEASES OBLITERATIVE DIS SURG THER SPASM PATHOGEN SPASM PATHOL - THER THROMBOSIS THER RESULTS OF SURG RADIOGRAPHY PERIPHERAL ARTERIO RAPHY TECHNIC 24638 HEART GARFIELD A Unified Index to Science 226 CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM 5LCOD VESSELS GRO'.`'TH IN VITRO fR M BONE NARROW · CULTURE 24470 PRESERV FOR TRANSPL DISEASES ENDANGIITIS OBLITE ANS RELATION TO BUERGER S DIS .25308 INNERVATION 2261 HEART CARDIAC SEPTUM INFARCTION COMPL LEFT BUNDLE RANCH BLOCK ECG DIAG 24464 RUPTURE DISEASES ANEURYSM ARTERIOSCLEROTIC SURG ANEURYSM OF HEPATIC ARTERY .
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indexes from this same alphabetic index by the use of different class numbers or symbols in the master deck of subject heacling carcis. From the point of view of an international indexing center this capability could have considerable significance, since different classification schemes tend to bring out different approaches to subject matter.
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