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PUBLISHERS of periodical, scientific or other, issue general indices only afcer intervals of ten or twenty years. In the ninth or nineteenth year the investigator of bibliography has to turn over every volume, a fearful waste of time. I have consulted with the librarian of this University, and the proposal we have to make is that the publishers should send, at least to the libraries, a duplicate copy of the annual index of each journal, or better a revised proof in slips, to be cut up and pasted into a volume which would thus be annually extended for nine years, and superseded in the tenth by the general index. The addition to the expense in a library is very trifling, and a small payment for the extra copies of the indices would protect the publishers against loss.
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YOUNG, J. Indices Of Journals. Nature 7, 464 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007464c0
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