SYSTEMATIC SUBJECT INDEXING
- 1 January 1953
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Documentation
- Vol. 9 (1), 48-57
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026190
Abstract
The function of a subject index is above all practical: it is a working tool designed to help the user to find his way about the documented information in a given subject field. Any system of indexing and classification must be judged by its practical value to the user, not by its conformity to a set of abstract principles. Despite this, it is only on the basis of inductively derived principles that a system can be constructed at all.Keywords
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