International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology

  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 2

Indexing and abstracting bibliographic electronic database: A comparative analysis

1Deputy Librarian School of Computer Engineering KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar-24, Odisha, Bharat

2Chief Librarian M.M. (Deemed to be University), Mullana, Haryana, Bharat

Abstract

Indexing and abstracting services provide brief documents assigning descriptors referencing documents. The product of the service may be of abstract of the journal, conference proceeding or any other document which is published in the legitimate manner. This can be served through the gateway of subject bibliography and/or of bibliographic databases. It is required to locate data without being confused and wasting the precious time of the users without searching every row of the database table every time. So, it is highly requires for every categories of users ’in general and students, research scholars and faculty members in particular in academic perspectives. So, the aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of the electronic indexing and abstracting databases in the present scenario.

Keywords

Indexing, Abstracting, Bibliographic Database, Reference, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Open Access