Standards for which fields to index, and how

Are there standards available as to which MARC fields and subfields 
should be search- and browse-indexed?  Or, if not, do you know of 
somebody's documentation (maybe yours?) of your search- and 
browse-indexed fields and subfields?

I asked a similar question on 16 November 2006 and got replies from 
Charley Pennell and J. McRee Elrod, who pointed me to their in-house 
documentation.  (So, gentlemen, there's no need to answer unless your 
outfits have changed their practices.)

One of my department's priorities is to update the interface of our 
ill-functioning periodical article index (link below).  I mentioned at a 
meeting that I'd come up with a list of proposals for fields and 
subfields that should be word-searchable and browseable -- then a 
colleague asked, "Is there a standard for that, that you could consult?"

Good question.  Is there?  Or, if not, would anybody else be kind enough 
to share their documentation with me?

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Paul Adasiak,             |     Alaska and Polar Regions Department
Metadata Coordinator      |     Elmer E. Rasmuson Library
E-mail: fnpfa@...     |     University of Alaska Fairbanks

Alaska & Polar Periodical Index: http://goldmine.uaf.edu/aprindex/
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