POPLINE restores abortion as search term
Posted April 9th, 2008 by Tara Murray in Health, PRI Library News, Women’s IssuesFor a brief period, anyone who searched POPLINE using the search term “abortion” would get 0 results. Inquiries by concerned librarians revealed that POPLINE administrators at Johns Hopkins had made “abortion” a stop word after USAID, the reproductive health database’s funder, expressed concern about a few articles in the database. “Abortion” was quickly restored as a search term after numerous complaints.
For more, see articles at NPR and the Baltimore Sun.
