FINDING, ORGANIZING AND USING HEALTH INFORMATION:

s and indexes provide citations to papers dealing with specific topics in a field of knowledge. Indexes provide the essential bibliographic information needed to identify an article or other publications and usually include information about the author of the work, the source journal or other publication, volume, issue, and pagination [30]. Abstracting tools include the same key elements but also a summary of the work usually written by the author or sometimes generated by the reviewer where an author did not submit one. Most indexing and abstracting services allow access to their content through subject and author indexes. However, each tool differs on how data is presented and the nature by which access is organized. Examples of abstracts and indexes include:  Index Medicus  International Pharmaceutical Abstracts  Index to Dental Literature  Science Citation Index  Current