IPOLICY
LIS 536
1. Follow the document-oriented indexing approach, using the following consecutive steps:
2. Index terms must be in "Health Care Services and Facilities: Thesaurus of Index Terms," or in the list of disease categories I gave you. Do not use any other descriptors, even if they are part of the complete set of MESH headings.
3. Index only with descriptor(s) that best represent each concept. If an appropriate descriptor cannot be identified for a particular concept, index under a broader concept, or assign two narrow concepts which combine to represent the concept.
4. Index to the specific level of subject matter covered by the document, i.e. to the narrowest term possible. Assign broader terms as well only if the article deals with both the narrow and broad subjects, or you feel the broad subject would also be of significant interest.
5. Index exhaustively all significant concepts covered in the document.
6. Designate major descriptors (the concepts central to an article) with DA, and minor descriptors with DB.
7. Index the document in hand; avoid indexing aspects referred to briefly, but not actually dealt with substantively.
8. Index only concepts substantiated in the document; avoid indexing any claims of the author's that are not supported by results in the document, or any tangential knowledge or opinions you might have which are not actually discussed in the document.