A Future for Printed Indexes? Available to Purchase

The present applications of printed indexes in books, periodicals, quick reference sources and indexing and abstracting publications are considered, and the future for printed indexes in each of these spheres is examined. The printed index is often a supplement to the document which it indexes. For each of the four categories of printed index two questions are explored: whether the documents being indexed will continue in printed form; and whether it will continue to be unacceptable to have the index and document in different physical forms.