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THE principal change in this valuable work for the general reader is the change in size from quarto to a format which allows it to be shelved with the majority of other reference books. It is compiled on the plan of the 'dictionary catalogue', and the cross-references increase its value in tracing references to unusual and out-of-the-way topics which might otherwise be overlooked. While it does not cover the highly specialized periodicals of which the contents are covered by sectional indexes or abstracts, the scientific worker will sometimes find it a useful supplement to such sources in completing a search, particularly on more general topics.
Subject Index to Periodicals, 1947
(Issued by the Library Association.) Pp. xi + 311. (London : Library Association, 1949.) £5 5s. 0d.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 164, 1066 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641066d0
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