Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) is a stepping stone for an exciting career in the Knowledge Management industry which is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 22% to reach at USD ($) 1,232,000 million by 2025. Working as an A&I Associate, you'll eventually be helping research fraternity worldwide in their quest for finding authentic information sources, thereby enriching their knowledge and furthering their research endeavors.
Under abstracting, the job is to prepare abstracts of articles and research papers concerning different subject domains, based on client’s specification. For indexing, the job is to create relevant headings that should further granulate the prepared abstracts or author supplied abstracts concerning different subject domains based on client’s specification. A&I Associates begin with imbibing values to an original publication. They’re required to go through the original publication, find out the theme of the publication along with keywords that highlight the concerned content. They create abstracts for the original articles based on the theme and assign index headings (keywords) to their abstracts. It enables Associates to imbibe values to the original publication and enhance it’s searchability in the vast pool of information databases. This profile marks the beginning of phenomenon professional growth in a thriving industry.