Dictionary of Inventions and Discoveries ed. by E. F. Carter (review)

82 Books attention of visual artists and students as well as of scholars. It covers more than 800outstanding journals in literature, history, languages, religion, philosophy, drama, theater, art and architecture , music. classics, dance, film/radio/television and folklore. The following items in each journal issue are indexed: ‘articles, letters, editorials, notes, meeting abstracts, discussions, corrections , errata; poems, short stories, excerpts from books, plays, music scores; chronologies, bibliographies, discographies, filmographies , etc.; and reviews of books, films, records, art exhibits, TV and radio programs, and dance, music, and theatrical performances. Only ephemeral itemssuch as advertisements , news notices, and meeting agendas are omitted.’ ‘A&HCIis published in two softbound issuesand a hardbound cumulation each year. The first interim issue covers the period January through April; the second, May through August. The annual cumulation contains material for the full year, January through December’. Publication began in 1978. ‘Every issueof A&HCI is an integrated search system consisting of four separate, but related, indexes: the Source Index, the Citation Index, the Perniuterm Subject Index, and the Corporate Index. Each covers the same material, but indexesit in a different way.’ The Source Index, an author index, ‘provides a complete bibliographic description of the item’. In addition an entry indicates what the item is (article, editorial, letter, etc.) and the language in which it is written, presents additional key words whenthe title itself isuniformative, and givesboth the author and a brief bibliographic description of each of the works cited in the item. By regularly consulting the Source Index, one can note subsequent publications of an author. The citations give information on other works on the subject. ‘All art works which are the subject of articles are treated in A&HCI as cited items even when they were not formally cited in footnotes or bibliographies. Their titles therefore appear in the lists of cited references in When a photograph of a work of art is also reproduced in an article,itstitleappears in the list with “ILL” beside it.’ ‘The Citation Index is an alphabetical listing by author of all the references(cited items) found in footnotes and bibliographies of articles (citing items) covered in A&HCI. Also included as cited items are works of art (novels, paintings, musical compositions . etc.) which are the subjects of articles, even though they were not formally cited.’ The Citation Indexmay be used to start a literaturesearch in an unfamiliar subject area if one is given the name of a person who has authored an article pertinent to the subject. The Citation Index is employed specifically to find articles in which the author’s work and also the work of other authors are cited. It may also be used to find a photographic reproduction of a painting. For example, if one wishes to locate one of ‘The Bacchante’by the Victorian painter Arthur Hill, one looksup the artist to locate an entry listing the painting and indicating the article in which a reproduction appears. The Source Index isthen consulted to find a complete bibliographic description. Some works cited in source itemsare produced by a group, for example by UNESCO. The name of the group is given as the ‘author’ and the listing is made in the separate Miscellaneous Citation Index. In addition there is an Anonynious Citation Index in which items are arranged alphabetically by title. or by journal title for cited anonymous items from journals. ‘In the Perniuterni Subject Index (PSI) every significant Englishword in the title of the source items indexedby A&HCI is paired with every other significant English word that with it in the title.’ ‘The PSI is arranged alphabetic Beneath each main entry or “primary term” are listed alphabetically the “co-terms” which appeared with it in titles. Opposite each co-term IS the name of the author of an item whose title includes the primary and the co-term. You get complete information about the item by looking up the author’s name in the Source Index.’ For example, under the primary term ‘color’ one finds a list of co-terms. two of which are ‘design’ and ‘psychology’.The two co-terms are associated with one author, L. Swirnoff,and are identifiedby a code symbolsignifyinga book review.The Source Index gives the referencefully:Psychology of Color and...