Abstracts for journal articles
FD78@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Thu, 23 Dec 1993 14:48:36 ECT
Robert Schnucker, editor of the SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL,
recently published an article in SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING (U. of Toronto),
calling on editors of historical journals to publish abstracts and
key words for each article, preferably under the title on the first
page of each article. Schnucker believes that this practice would
save researchers considerable time and would also position historical
journals for any future on-line search tools that may become widely
available.
Since some members of H-CivWar are editors of journals or serve
on editorial boards and since virtually all subscribers to H-CivWar
browse through historical journals at one time or another, I thought
perhaps you might have some ideas about this topic. Do you think
this is a good idea? A bad idea? Why? Any suggestions along those
lines?
If H-CivWar gets enough feedback from subscribers on this
question, perhaps we could forward "the sense of the meeting" to
Prof. Schnucker. So -- what do you think?
Richard Lowe
U. of North Texas
fd78@vaxb.acs.unt.edu