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Bibliographic Control of Serial Publications
An important problem with serials is bibliographic control. What good
does it do for libraries to select, acquire, record, catalog, and bind large
holdings of serial publications if the contents of those serials remain a mystery
to all except the few who have the opportunity to examine selected journals
of continuing personal interest and have discovered some magic way of
retaining the gist of the contents? Bibliographic control is the indexing and
abstracting of the contents or guts of what is included in the serials. It is this
control, provided by secondary publishing services, which this article will
discuss.
Just as there are problems with serials in general, there are some easily
identifiable problems connected with their bibliographic control including:
volume, overlap, costs, elements and methods, and a few other miscellaneous
considerations. Some history of bibliographic control will also put the current
problems in a helpful perspective. Hereafter "bibliographic control" will be
designated by the term "abstracting and indexing," one of these alone, or the
shorter "a & i." (I do distinguish between abstracting and indexing and believe
that they are not in order of importance and difficulty.) Although a & i do
provide bibliographic control, this paper will not discuss cataloging, tables of
contents, back-of-the-book indexes, year-end indexes, cumulative indexes, lists
of advertisers, or bibliographies.
If there is to be control, there must always be indexing. Abstracting is a
short cut, a convenience, and perhaps a bibliographic luxury which may be
now, or is fast becoming, too rich, in light of other factors to be discussed,
for library blood and for the users of libraries especially for the users of
indexes who may not depend upon the library interface. Abstracting, though,
provides a desirable control, and one which will continue to be advocated.published or submitted for publicatio
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