abstract

…in the form of reviews, abstracts, and indexes. Over the past 100 years there has evolved a system of disciplinary, national, and international abstracting and indexing services that acts as a gateway to several attributes of primary literature: authors, subjects, publishers, dates (and languages) of publication, and citations. The professional…

…types of documents, indexes and abstracts, contain catalogs and bibliographies of original materials. Indexes include any of countless bibliographies of currently published material, usually of articles in periodicals. Sometimes libraries have taken the initiative to create these finding aids for journal articles. For example, the U.S. National Library of Medicine…