Number of found records: 11
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KOSTOFF, R.N.; HARTLEY, James |
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Open letter to technical journal editors regarding structured abstracts: this letter proposes that structured abstracts be required for all technical journal titles |
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Journal of Information Science, 2002, vol. 28, n.3, pp.257-61 |
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Structured abstracts are required by many medical research periodicals in order for submitted manuscripts to qualify for publication. These abstracts are subdivided, using subheadings, into clear separate subsections. However, structured abstracts are presently not required by most technical periodicals but the authors believe this to be detrimental to the technical community and ultimately to authors and periodicals as well. The purpose of this letter is to indicate how publishing structured abstracts in technical periodicals can benefit the users of this literature. Further, based upon experience with structured abstracts over the past decade, it is argued that the benefits of using structured abstracts far outweigh the costs. Concludes with examples of structured abstracts. The letter is an expansion of an abridged version published elsewhere (Science 11, May 2001). (The authors may be contacted by electronic mail at Kostofr@onr.navy.mil and jhartley@psy.keele.ac.uk). (DB) |
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Author abstracts; Structured abstracts |
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KOLTAY, Tibor |
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The structure of medical papers and their author-abstracts |
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Health Information and Libraries, 1990, vol.1, n.2, pp. 55-60. |
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Most existing abstracting guidelines prescribe that abstracts should indicate the purpose, scope, method, results and conclusions of the study described in a paper. Abstracts should therefore reflect the superstructure of their primary source (the paper). Describes a study in which the content structure of 218 medical papers and their author-abstracts were compared to determine whether the papers' superstructures were reflected in the content structure of their author-abstracts. Papers showing the explicit structure of Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion were taken from 8 journals issued in East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Results of the study indicate much variety in abstract superstructure in the 218 Papers studied. (DB) |
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abstracting service; Author abstracts; Abstracting |
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KOLTAY, Tibor |
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Draft of an abstracting grammar |
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Health Information and Libraries, 1990, vol. 1, n.4, pp. 37-44. |
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Outlines the most important features of the concept of the abstract, with special attention to the problems of its functions, the relative independence of the abstract, the differences between abstracts and author abstracts, informative and indicative abstracts. Stresses the need for scientific rules and instructions for abstracting. (AU) |
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Abstracting-; Author abstracts |
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LEO. Literacy Education on Line |
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Writing Abstracts |
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On line ( 15/06/2004) |
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Defines the abstract concept, typology and guidelines to write a good abstract. |
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abstracting guidelines |
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