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Notes Books in Print Plus, is a computer file available from 1979. It is a machine-readable version
in CD-ROM, updated bimonthly.

The British counterpart to the Books in Print is Whitaker’s Books in Print that was started
as British Books in Print in 1974 but changed its title in 1988, to be known by its new name.
It is published in four volumes, two each for authors and for titles.
Trade Catalogues for Government Publications
(a) India: Catalogue: Publications and Periodicals Corrected up to 1993 (Delhi: Controller of
Publications), claimed to be updated by annual and monthly supplements is a list of
official publications brought out by the various Ministries and Departments of the
Government of India.
List of fresh Arrivals of Government of India Publications and Periodicals Released during
the Month…(Delhi: Dept. of Publications) is a mimeographed monthly list.
Government of India Books in Print 1994 compiled by J.S. Khurana and M.S. Khurana
(New Delhi: Book well, 1994) covers books in print from 1980 onwards. It also contains a
section for listing publications of such autonomous Departments as Election Commission,
Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretaries, Supreme Court of India.
(b) United Kingdom: Catalogue of United Kingdom Official Publications in a CD-ROM records
publications of 12 major international organisations from 1980 to the present.
(c) United States: Monthly Catalogue of United Stated Government Publications, 1985-
(Washington: Government printing Office) is the most comprehensive list of government
publications currently issued.

12.3.4 Universal Bibliographies

A universal bibliography is one that includes everything that is published, issued, or processed
in the field of knowledge form the beginning to the future. Dr. Ranganathan defines a
bibliography to be universal when it includes all published materials, whether books or part of
them or periodicals or articles in them or combination of them, on all subjects, in all languages,
in all countries, at all times. In other words, a universal bibliography is one that records all
documents, produced in all languages in all countries of the world, without restriction of the
theme. The preparation of a universal bibliography of the above nature appears to be a mammoth
task almost impossible to achieve.
There are no known published universal bibliographies but some possible examples in this
direction can be published catalogues of British Library Reference Division, British Library
(UK), Library of Congress of US, and Bibliotheque Nationale of France.

12.3.5 Statistical Bibliographies

A statistical bibliography is prepared in order to shed light on the process of written
communication and of the nature and cause of development of a discipline by means of counting
and analysing the various facets of written communication.

There are very few examples of this type of bibliography. One representative example is Abstract
of British Historical Statistics by B.R. Mitchell and Phyllis Deane published in 1962 by Cambridge
University Press.

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