Abstracting and Indexing Jourals: The Unkindest Cut?

Traditional circumcision--the unkindest cut of all.

Traditional circumcision – the unkindest cut of all ‘What kind of ritual is this that it now is killing our children?’ (mother of a male Xhosa initiate)1 To the Editor: Twenty years ago two Eastern Cape urological surgeons documented their experience with treating initiates of umkhwetha, the ancient custom of ritual circumcision practised by the amaXhosa people of southern Africa. Crowley and K...

Nonconsensual surgery: the unkindest cut of all.

Do Indexing and Abstracting Have a Future?*

The World Wide Web presents information access problems orders of magnitude greater than any encountered before. These problems are identified and discussed. Although the intellectual indexing of the entire Web is impossible and, in any case, not worthwhile, selective indexing of high value resources (e.g., by means of specialized portals) is essential. The summarization of Web resources (i.e.,...

Cable Abstracting and INdexing S_ystem (CANIS) Prototype

ing captures information about the cable itself: its document number, source, date, etc. Indexing captures information about the entities described in the cable: their names, dates of birth, locations, etc. The result of the abstracting and indexing process is a set of index records about the entities that were described in a cable. When a cable has been abstracted and indexed, its index record...

New Developments in Biological Abstracting And Indexing

CURRENT ISSUES facing abstracting and indexing services serving scientists in biology, medicine, and agriculture bring into sharp focus the pressures which result from accelerating needs and from the impact of contemporary technology on document preparation and control. Nonetheless, the patterns of publication of scientific literature which we may describe today have been shaped during the past...