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THE seventeenth volume of "The Subject Index to Periodicals" covers the year 1942 and presents no new features. It is compiled on the plan of the 'dictionary catalogue', articles being entered under specific headings in alphabetical order. The principle is not carried to inconvenient extremes; for example, articles on the individual vitamins are collected under vitamins and are not dispersed under their respective names, while cross-references play an important part in linking up related subjects. Explanatory matter in square brackets is often added where the titles do not sufficiently indicate the subject. The preparation of the "Index", as formerly, has largely depended on the vast resources of the British Museum, while from September 1940 until October 1943 the editor and his staff were accommodated in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. With some important exceptions, including, for example, NATURE; Engineering, the British Medical Journal, periodicals covered by the Agricultural Index, Engineering Abstracts, Index Medians, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Petroleum Institute Abstracts, Photographic Abstracts, Science Abstracts, Journal of the Textile Institute and the Royal Meteorological Society Bibliographies are not indexed; but scientific workers will find the "Index" a useful means of picking up signed articles on scientific subjects in leading general periodicals, as well as in tracing authoritative articles on a wide range of social and economic problems, education, reconstruction, etc., in ttie leading reviews and periodicals.
The Subject Index to Periodicals, 1942
Issued by the Library Association. Pp. x + 175. (London: Library Association, 1944.) 77s. net.
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The Subject Index to Periodicals, 1942. Nature 153, 635 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153635b0
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