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MODERN mass-production of scientific arid technical literature led first to the growth of comprehensive abstract services, which, as literary proliferation increased, have tended to bury the references to articles on specific subjects in the mass of abstracts on all subjects. Thus has developed the present-day demand for specialised bibliographies?lists of references classified according to the titles of the articles noticed, and informing about the quantity rather than the quality of scientific literature. A comprehensive bibliography on all branches of agriculture and allied subjects is now being organised at the Science Library, South Kensington, London, S.W.7. As the Library takes most of the four thousand or so agricultural journals published throughout the world, it offers unusually good facilities for the preparation of such a bibliography. Subscribers, paying 10. per annum as individuals, or £5 5s. as institutions, will have full access to the bibliography and special facilities for reference to books in the Library. Translations and abstracts will also be made. The service commenced on March 1.
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Central Agricultural and Scientific Bibliography. Nature 137, 489 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137489c0
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