British Abstracts Section

In addition to the problem of which word order is to be used, there is the question of which words or parts of words shall be omitted or retained. For instance, the word American might appear as A, Am., Amer., or Amern. Abbreviations for the word Journal are similarly varied. The letter A might also stand for Annalen, annaler, annales, annali, Annalen der Chemie, abstracts, age, or even British Abstracts, Section A. 

British Abstracts, Section B Applied Chemistry, 1924-. Before 1924, corresponding abstracts... 

British Abstracts, Section Bill, Bureau of Abstracts, Colquhoun House, Broadwick St.,... 

British Chemical Abstracts (Sections A and B) issued by the Bureau of Chemical Abstracts, and Chemical Abstracts of the American Chemical Society, should also be consulted for recent references. 

British Abstracts was issued monthly, two numbered columns to the page, with separate pagination for each section. Indexes for A and B were sometimes published separately, sometimes combined, C was issued sometimes with A and sometimes with B. Author and subject indexes were issued for A and B to cover 1923-1932, 1933-1937. The subject indexes, which were neither as complete or as detailed as those of the other two major abstracting journals, consisted of a shortened title with the part and page reference. No formula index was issued until 1946. 

Analytical Abstracts (Heffer, 1954-) is published for the Society for Analytical Chemistry as a replacement for section C of British Abstracts. 

Abstracts of analytical chemistry can be found in the general abstracting journals already described and in Analytical Abstracts (Fig. 27) published for the Society for Analytical Chemistry since 1954 as an independent publication, and previously issued as section C of British Abstracts and in the Analyst. This is a monthly publication with world coverage having annual author and subject indexes. Wherever possible authors addresses are included with indication of the language of the original article where this is not obvious. These excellent informative abstracts which are also available printed on one side only of the paper so as to be suitable for inclusion into reference systems are... 

The sort of hierarchy that Airy envisaged was institutionalized in the relations and operations of the sections of the British Association that dealt respectively with the more abstract and the more practical sciences. Morrell and Thackray describe the situation thus ... 

The information in this section has been abstracted from British Rubber Manufacturers Association Ltd (1977), Fire Protection Association (1972), Isothone Ltd (undated), Patty (1981), Pigott (1969), Sax (1984) and Sommerfeld (1996). 

The Directions for Abstractors and Section Editors of Chemical Abstracts contain nomenclature rules as well as other information of general interest in chemical writing, and these are used by other than Chemical Abstracts workers. When Chemical Abstracts was organized it borrowed information from British directions, particularly nomenclature information. 

Undoubtedly the most adequate abstract journal is the British Dairy Science Abstracts, formerly a quarterly but, beginning in 1952, a monthly. The abstracts are logically arranged in eight sections, suitably subdivided. Thus the section on chemistry and physics is broken down into general, milk and milk products, processing and manufacture, analysis, and defects. This makes for economy of time and effort in scanning them. 

The journals listed here that are general to the food industries contain much that is directly pertinent or applicable to the meat industry. Several, particularly the Canadian and British publications, carry, from time to time, extensive reports of experimental work or review articles on the field. Nearly all contain sections that provide a quick survey of the new trade literature. With the exception of Food Processing (48) and Food Machinery (45), all of those listed are indexed or abstracted by at least one of the services discussed above. 

The Documentation section compares very favorably with the German, British, and American abstract journals with regard to the quality of its abstracts on applied chemistry since 1919, and for abstracts of French patents. It is also well worth consulting for abstracts of patents from European countries in general. Unfortunately, no numerical patent indexes are supplied. 

In Great Britain the British Standards Institution (2 Park Street, London W.l) is the body responsible for the preparation and promulgation of standards. These are listed in numerical order with a brief abstract of each in the BSI Yearbook, which also includes British Standard Codes of Practice and the publications of international organizations. It has a subject index. New standards are listed in the monthly BSI News. Sectional lists are also issued of standards in specific fields. PD 3457 is entitled British Standards of Indirect Interest to the Chemical Engineering Industry. 

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