Fwd: [ADS-L] GAY-BASHING query

[James Knight]

Fred,

>... but the
>term appears in the abstract and probably did not appear in the
>original article:


It may have; last I checked, neither EBSCO or Proquest write their
own summaries (where they appear, Gale writes its own, or uses author
abstracts), but use automation to extract segments of the article to
create said "abstract".

-jk

At 06:58 AM 11/29/2006, you wrote:
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>On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
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> > is anyone here subscribed to EBSCO (http://www.epnet.com/)?
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>I searched this for "gay bashing."  One early citation comes up, but the
>term appears in the abstract and probably did not appear in the
>original article:
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>Gays slurred again in Steambath. Advocate, 5/23/73 Issue 112, p31
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>Fred Shapiro
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