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THE Subject Index to Periodicals, 1941, issued by the Library Association, appears only some ten months after its predecessor, thus making up to some extent the loss of time incurred in 1940-41 and encouraging the hope that the Index can weather the storm without a gap in the sequence of its volumes or excessive delay in publication. This reduction of the time lag in publication is particularly welcome, in some fields and should further enhance the value of the Index if it can be maintained or further reduced. The Continental periodicals previously indexed are no longer obtainable and their place has been taken by the following British and American publications,, carefully selected by a sub-committee: Anglo-Soviet Journal ; Bulletin of the Friends' Historical Association ; Bulletin of Spanish Studies ; Comparative Literature Studies ; Conveyancer ; France Libre ; Horizon ; Modern Law Review ; Music Review ; Plastics ; Religion in Education ; Silk and Rayon ; Soil Science ; Transactions of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. As previously, the Index is compiled on the plan of the “dictionary catalogue”, articles being entered under specific headings in alphabetical order. With some important exceptions periodicals covered by Science Abstracts A and B, the Index Medicus, Agricultural Index, Engineering Abstracts and Index, Photographic Abstracts and a few other specified publications are not indexed.
The Subject Index to Periodicals, 1941
Issued by the Library Association. Pp. x+204. (London: Library Association, 1943.) 77s.
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The Subject Index to Periodicals, 1941. Nature 152, 90 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152090d0
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