The future of indexing and abstracting services

F. W. Lancaster and Julie M. Neway

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1982, vol. 33, issue 3, 183-189

Abstract: In the past decade the increased costs of traditional print‐on‐paper secondary services have resulted in a decline in subscriptions for many titles. Concomitantly, the cost effectiveness and efficiency of computer processing has led to a proliferation of online databases. Secondary services in online form have not only increased access points to the primary literature, but have also had the effect of making information more accessible regardless of geographic location. The future lies in an integration of primary and secondary services. Dual‐mode secondary publications will gradually give rise to new secondary services in machine‐readable form only. As the primary literature follows suit, secondary services will be involved in building “filters” and search aids to guide the user from the initial databases of primary text to databases of abstracts derived from primary text, and finally to more specialized, subject‐profile‐oriented databases of abstracts.

Date: 1982
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