Course Summery’2012 ISLM 301: Indexing and Abstracting

Full Marks: 100Course Final 80, Incourse 20

(Tutorial 10, Class Presentation 5, Project 5)CH-4

Md. Nazmul IslamLecturer

Dept. of Information Science & Library ManagementRajshahi University

E-mail: nazmul.islam.81@gmail.comWeb: http://nazmul81.weebly.com

Cell # + 88 01718 577233

Course Summery/MNI 2

Course SummeryUnit-1Prelude to Indexing and AbstractingDefinitions and meanings of index and abstract, Relationship of Index, Abstract and Classification, Index vs abstract, Historical Background of Indexing and AbstractingIndex and IndexingIndexing & Indexing System, Nature of Indexes, Trinity of Indexing, Components of an Index Entry with an suitable example, Arrangement of Index Entries

Unit-2Levels and Types of IndexBasic levels and types of IndexesCitation IndexingConcept of Citations and Reference, Distinction between "citation" and "reference", Concept of Citation Indexing, Reasons to use citation index, Current Major Citation Indexing Services, Case studies: Limitations of Thomson ISI web of Science and Google scholar for imposing true citation impact factor.

Course Summery/MNI 3

Course SummeryUnit-3Methods and Procedures of Indexing RulesTwo categories of problem while compiling index entries, Attempt to overcome these problems (Follow Specific Rules, Follow Specific types of index and strategies), Index Compilation Process (Steps in Manual Indexing): Examination of sources of index.

Automatic IndexingCategories of Indexing System, Definition of Automatic Indexing, Reasons for Automatic Indexing, General techniques of automatic Indexing, Methods of automatic indexing, Automatic Indexing Software, Problems of Automatic Indexing

Evaluation of Index EffectivenessMeasures of Evaluating Index Effectiveness, Calculation of recall and precision ratio, How to determine the F-measure (F1 value), Relationship between recall and precision in terms of exhaustively and specificity, Index Evaluation Checklist by American Society Indexing (ASI)

Course Summery/MNI 4

Course SummeryUnit-4The ThesaurusControlled Vocabulary: Thesaurus, What is a Thesaurus? Why do we need thesaurus? Directions on how to use thesaurus, Thesaurus Design: Methods, decisions to be made before designing thesaurus, Thesaurus compilation processUnit-5Abstract and AbstractingDefinitions of abstract, Motivations for studying and preparing abstract, Characteristics of the abstract, Types of Abstracts, Difference between Indicative abstract and Informative AbstractUnit-6Steps in AbstractingAbstracting steps, Anatomy of an abstract, Guidelines for Abstract according to ANSI/NISO Z39.14-1997

Course Summery/MNI 5

Course Summery

Unit-7Evaluation of AbstractFactors affecting the length of an abstract, Global Trends to measure the quality and effectiveness of abstract

Unit-8Individual/Group projectIndexing and abstracting services in different types libraries & information centers of Bangladesh