International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation

Another list of abbreviations is offered by the Word List of Scientific Periodicals (44-45), The third edition of this work, published in 1952, contains abbreviations that follow the system recommended at an international conference of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. The original World List abbreviations, published in 1927, required only slight modifications to comply with this system. 

Pfiiicke and Hawelek in 1952 (SI) mention that the Chemisches Zentralblatt abbreviations are based on the World List and the rules of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, as set forth in German Standard No. 1502 however, the list of journal title word abbreviations used by CZ and published in Periodica Chimica (31) shows considerable variation from the German Standard No. 1502. 

A more feasible plan was proposed by the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation and, more recently, by the Royal Society. Let it be the responsibility of the periodical published to obtain an abbreviation that has the approval of either Chemical Abstracts or the World List (preferably both). This abbreviation would then appear printed on the covers and at the bottom of each page of the journal. Such a plan would make abbreviation problems a thing of the past. 

International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, International Code of Abbreviations for Titles of Periodicals, International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, Paris, 1930 Supplement, 1932. 

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Kittrell, C. 8c Feld, M.S. Catheter System for Imaging World Intellectual Property Organization Patent Cooperation Treaty International Application WO 89/02718 Assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology Filed in 1988. Priority Number US 100714 (1987). 

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