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- Title
Stop words in the filing of subheadings.
- Authors
McMaster, Max
- Abstract
Whether stop words -- prepositions, conjunctions and articles -- should be ignored in the filing of subheadings is a debatable topic among indexers. Without clear guidance from editors or publishers on this point, indexers rely on the default settings within their indexing software to provide the sort. Comparing the same subject index using the default stop word settings of CINDEX, Macrex and Sky Index produces unsettling results. An alternative approach is to forget stop words and file the subheadings in strict alphabetical order. Discussion of the management of stop words is provided. INSET: So stingy a creature ....
- Subjects
STOP words; SUBJECT heading subdivisions; SCOPE notes; INDEXING software; INDEXING
- Publication
Indexer, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 3, p68
- ISSN
0019-4131
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/indexer.2016.18