SIRS Researcher emerged from a teaching environment and is dedicated to the pursuit of quality information. The strategies developed there have been incorporated into SIRS products. Reprint permissions are negotiated with each copyright holder. Authors are very pleased to be included in SIRS databases. They are fairly remunerated for their articles.
Many databases are indexed by computers, utilizing the number of times a word appears in an article.
Often the computer indexing is irrelevant. SIRS indexing is done by professionals utilizing Library of Congress subject headings. SIRS indexing is so accurate and useful that it has become a taxonomy for the study of issues and a standard for the industry. Off-shore indexing or computer indexing can not accomplish the indexing task with the great integrity found in SIRS products. Some companies tend to utilize short articles with few graphics in order to increase their total number of articles.