New Periodicals of 1963-Part I

THE YEAR 1963 has opened auspiciously with quite a few periodicals which appear of value and the librarian can only hope that their life will be long and prosperous. Of special interest to the reference librarian will be the many new bibliographical and abstracting services. For the public librarian, several popular magazines in the fields of science, medicine , and technology should be welcome additions. As usual, there are a great many new scholarly scientific and technical journals. It can be said of most of these that they include original papers reporting both theoretical and experimental research. These magazines have not been annotated but may be distinguished in the alphabetical list by an asterisk. ABSTRACTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY. Of the many new abstracting and bibliographical services the majority originate in Great Britain. The sole American offering is Human Genetics Abstracts which will appear monthly with items arranged according to a subject classification scheme and will be indexed by author. Aluminium Abstracts is published in Paris by the Centre International de Developpe-ment de L'Aluminium, with text in English. The first issue contains 129 abstracts arranged by subject and indexed by title. The first of the British publications is the Bibliography of Reproduction. The s~urce material covered for this list is impressive. Entries are taken from some five hundred journals directly and from over ten thousand indirectly by scanning such secondary source_ s as Index Me-dicus, Current Contents, and many others. Titles of recent books are also included. Arranged roughly by subject, each issue will also contain an animal index, an author index, and a list of aut~ors' addresses. During the year, two subject indexes will appear. Another comprehensive list is the Brit-ish National Filin Catalogue. This records films produced in Great Britain arranged Miss johnson is a Serials Cataloger in the Descriptive Cataloging Division of the Library of Congress. according to the Universal Decimal Classification with an alphabetical index by title, distributor, production company, sponsor, technician, and artist. A slim mimeographed publication which should be of utmost interest to any library which is seriously interested in building an Africana collection is Library Materials on Africa, issued by the Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa. Among the features of the first issue are an annotated bibliography of new bibliographical materials, an annotated listing of some of the new periodicals ; a list of the new periodicals acquired by the institutional libraries which are …