APPLIED MECHANICS REVIEWS, WADEX WORD AND AUTHOR INDEX, VOLUME XVI, 1963

• Main Authors: Ripperger, E A, Wooster, Harold, Juhasz, Stephen, Falconer, David
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Subjects: ibm 1401 computers; INDEXES; kwic indexes; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICS; PERIODICALS; SUBJECT INDEXING; wadex

WADEX (Word Author inDEX) an IBM 1401 prepared mechanical index, extension of KWIC. WADEX usable for browsing and searching. This second WADEX is based on 8,000 titles of APPLIED MECHANICS REVIEWS (AMR), Vol. 16, 1963, an international critical review magazine. In WADEX, titles printed fully with author names, and as many lines used as necessary (60 characters per line). WADEX entry: word in title (except forbidden word) or author's name. Alphabetically sequenced entries printed out of context. Words are single words or hypenated word pairs or 'Tagged Words' (TW). Latter consist of significant 'word compounds' in which one or more words are forbidden words. TW selected from subject index authority list of AMR and hyphenated words from frequency list of words of previous WADEX. For more than one identical word entries, titles alphabetized according to first author and for more than one identical word entries, titles alphabetized according to first author and for more than one identical author entries according to reference number, which printed in line with entry. Each entry followed by block containing year/month/AMR review number. Multiple entries listed only once per column. WADEX arranged in 2 columns, both columns printed simultaneously with dictionary entries at top and pagination at bottom by computer. After addition of 26 alphabetics, 'Compuscript' is the photo-ready copy with 6.5 average entry per paper including 1.5 for authors. (Author) Available from Superintendent of Documents, GPO, Washington, D. C., 20402, $3.50 as D301.45/19-2: 65-0728. MF$2.25 available from CFSTI.