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Information Sources and Services

Notes
Psychological Abstracts (1998–2000)
Social Sciences and Humanities Index (the International Index) (1940–1974)

Social Sciences Index (1974–2001)
Newspaper Indexes
Some newspapers publish their own indexes. The Rosenberg Library owns the following:

Christian Science Monitor Index (1965–1992)
San Francisco Chronicle Index (1904–present)
New York Times Index (1939–present)
Wall Street Journal Index (1965–present)
Source: http://www.ccsf.edu/Library/printindexes.pdf

Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
8. I & A periodicals point out only to the existence of source of information and do also carry
actual information.
9. I & A periodicals may be exhaustive or selective in coverage of literature depending upon
the purpose.
10. The provision of various types of indexes enhances the retrieval efficiency of indexing and
abstracting periodicals.

11. The periodicity of the indexing and abstracting periodicals is mostly dependent upon the
volume of literature that would be available for coverage in a year.

13.6 Types of Indexing and Abstracting

I & A services are usually brought out with the scope narrowed down to particular subject,
country or kinds of documents. The scope is defined in relation to purpose. Overlapping in
coverage is not uncommon or easy to control within these different types if I & A periodicals.

13.6.1 Comprehensive Services

Centralized agencies in countries such as the former USSR, France, Japan and China have been
attempting comprehensive I & A services to cover all types of literature in the entire field of
science and technology. The main purpose is to overcome language barrier in the matter of
providing access to world information to their scientists, of which a significant part would be in
foreign languages. Even though these services are produced by a centralized agency, they are
brought out in a number of series devoted to the main subject areas on consideration of ease in
physical production and convenience of use.

Example: Following are the example for comprehensive services:

Referativnyi Zhurnal, 1953 - periodically varies. Published in more than 40 separate
series, each devoted to specific field in science and technology. Published by the All
Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI), Moscow.

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