Caveat: Beware the Different Indexing Systems
T. A. Farrell · Archives of Ophthalmology · 1987
To the Editor. —I would like to offer my compliments to Dr Goldbaum1for his detailed review of computerized access to knowledge and information. In his article, he emphasizes the advantages of making one's own search. To this I offer the following caveat—one must know the indexing system for each database or journal. My warning stems from the frustration and irritation I experienced in an attempt to locate a recent epidemiologic article on ocular trauma published in theArchivesduring the past year. Because I like doing my own searches too, I have made a habit of filing each year's, or volume's, index of the ophthalmic journals I read in a loose-leaf notebook for ready reference. Much to my dismay, I was unable to find the ocular trauma article in theArchivesunder the index heading of trauma, ocular trauma, or hyphema. I figured I must have read the