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database on reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.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 (4/4/2008) Wired published a more complete story today.
