LACUNY Blog

« Speak up about the 2008-2012 CUNY Master Plan
POPLINE gets fixed »

POPLINE searching gets politicized

Posted by Stephen Francoeur on April 3, 2008

According to reports from some librarians (e.g., Rachel Walden at Women’s Health News), the word “abortion” has become a stop word on the POPLINE database, which is described as:

the world’s largest database on reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development. (USAID).

UPDATE (4/4/200 8) Wired published a more complete story today.

This entry was posted on April 3, 2008 at 1:42 pm and is filed under Access to information, Databases, POPLINE, searching. . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

« Speak up about the 2008-2012 CUNY Master Plan
POPLINE gets fixed »