Indexing – Meaning, History, Types, Agencies and Parameters

Abstract

Indexing assigns descriptors and other kinds of access points to the document.
Index can also be known as list, listing, register, catalogue, record, archive, inventory, dictionary and directory.
An indexed journal is one that is indexed in various databases, depending on the discipline. There are databases that index journals from various disciplines, such as the citation index, and there is more specialized index such as index medicus that index mainly journals in medicine.