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Unit 13: Indexing Services and Abstracting (I&A) Periodicals

13.6.4 Coverage by Geographical Area Notes

There are indexing and abstracting services with coverage limited to literature of a particular
country. Many countries bring out national I & A services with a view to achieve bibliographical
control of domestic literature and to disseminate them.
I & A services are also devoted to particular kind of documents of a country.

Example: Following are the examples of Coverage by geographical area:

Indian science Abstracts. New Delhi: Indian National Scientific Documentation
Centre, 1965. Fortnightly.

Indian psychological Abstracts and Reviews. New Delhi: Sage Publications India,
1972.

Indian Literary Index. New Delhi: Sahitya Akadami, 1988- Semi-annual.

Coverage by Specific Subject

Example: Following are the examples for coverage by specific subjects:

Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts, Bethesda, US: Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts, 1993.

Biological Abstracts. Philadelphia: Biosciences Information Service, 1926 – Semi-
monthly. It abstracts and indexes current published research from biological and
biomedical periodical literature published worldwide.
Chemical Abstracts and Indexes. Columbus, US: Chemical Abstracts, Service, 1907 –
Weekly. Subject covered is chemistry and allied disciplines.
Library and Information Science Abstracts ILISA). Ticeherst, Great Britain: Worldwide
Subscription Services, 1969- Monthly. It covers about 600 periodicals, books and
other literature dealing with Library and information science. Subject classifies
abstracts in the main section.
Humanities Index – It has been produced by three publishers varying in physical
formats, number of updates and LAN users simultaneously.
Wilson Humanities Index provides 2,84,800 records from over 350 English language
periodicals of the world. It includes feature articles, interviews, bibliographies,
reviews of motion pictures, operas and ballets, short stories, plays, poems and
book/reviews.
H.W. Wilson Co., Bronx. US. – Print form (4 times per year) including annual
cumulation. CD-ROM (1983) (12 time per year). It is available for single users as well
as for 2 and 3 users.

Silver Platter Information B.V. Amsterdam, NL – CD-ROM and Internet (1984)
(12 times per year). They are available for single user and on LAN for 2-4, 5-8 and
9-12 multiple users at a time.

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