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Volume 30, Issue 5
1 May 1978
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Aslib Proceedings
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Review Article| May 01 1978

‘Aboutness’ as a strategy for retrieval in the social sciences

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D.F. Swift
Information Research Group, Open University
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-3748
Print ISSN: 0001-253X
© MCB UP Limited
1978
Aslib Proceedings (1978) 30 (5): 182–187.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050630

Indexing systems have traditionally been geared to cater for search requests of the form ‘documents about…’. It is far from clear what is meant by the notion ‘about’, but the model that guides indexing is built around it. The procedure is:

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