Annals of Library Science and Documentation 1984,31(1-2),32-37

TRANSLATION INDEXES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

S.C. SAXENA DES/DOC, Metcalfe House New Delhi-I I 0054

Describes some of the important trans- lished done in the United States lation indexes in science and technology pub- and elsewhere. The index has two sections i.e. lished in India and abroad which are useful Register Section and Index Section. TR-I for the the English speaking scientists. Salient Register Section announces new accessions to features and drawbacks of World Transindex, the NTC collection. In the Register Section, Translations Register-Index, BLLD Announce- the translations are arranged under subject ment Bulletin, Aslib Index of Unpublished headings based on COSATI classification Translations, National Index of Translations, scheme. It also covers translations from other etc. have been discussed. sources including the National Technical Infor- mation Services (NTIS). The Index Section of INTRODUCTION TR-I has two parts: journal citations and patent citation. Reports, standards and other senal Translations are a vital source of information publications are included in the journal section. like other primary sources such as patents, re- The arrangement of these publications is alpha- search reports, periodicals, standards, etc. betical by title. Patents are arranged alphabeti- because it is the only source available to check cally by country of origin. The Index Section duplication of knowledge already in existence of TR-I is cumulated semi-annually for all but not accessible due to . As entries to date in the volume (1). of scientific and technical docu- The drawbacks of this index is that it does ments is very expensive and time consuming, not provide subject index for retrospective several networks of translation agencies, hold- search on a specific problem as well as the ing centres and international clearing houses author index for search through author. have been developed in various parts of the world which provide access to the existing 2. BLLD Announcement Bulletin translations through their indexes. It is a monthly bulletin published by the British TRANSLATION INDEXES Library Lending Division (BLLD) Boston spa (U.K.). It lists translations along with British Indexes Published in Foreign Countries report literature, and doctoral theses accepted Some of the translation indexes in the field of by the British Universities [2-3]. All the en- science and technology which are important for tries are arranged under broad subject headings the English speaking world are described below. and within the ultimate subject according -to the type of documents indicated by code. For 1. Translations Register-Index (TR-I) example, D-doctoral theses comes first followed by R-report, T-Translation and TA-Transla- It is a semi-monthly publication being issued tion abridges. At the end, this publication by the National Translations Centre (NTC), provides author index and the address list of Chicago, since 1967. It is the index of unpub- the issuing organizations.

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The index does not provides source. index Commission of the European Communities in and subject index for search on specific topic. Luxemburg and the Scientific and Technical Documentation Centre of the Central National 3. Aslib Index of Unpublished Translations de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. The World Transindex was formed in 1978 Since 1951, Aslib is maintaining a central card by merging the following publications [5-8]. index of English translations from all the langu- ages on various subjects particularly with empha- z. World Index of Scientific Translations sis on science and technology. It is purely a and List of Translations Notified to the location tool for unpublished translations which International Translations Centre; Aslib uses in handling inquiries on translations. n. Transatorn Bulletin; At present, the index contains more than 500,000 entries; the rate of additions of new ZH. Bulle tin des Traduc tions translations is about 10,000 items per year. World Transindex announces about 32,000 Information of translations is collected from translations per year from all the source langu- over 400 sources in Ll.K, and from several ages into all the target languages. It consists overseas organisations. of five sections i.e, references, source index, Bibliographic details of translations of author (personal) index, corporate author periodical articles are filed alphabetically by the index and patentee index. In the references, title of the periodical in the original language. the translations are arranged according to sub- Within each periodical title, details of articles ject headings based on the COSATI system .and are filed chronologically i.e. by year, volume, within the subject heading according to World number and pages. The periodical section Transindex Reference Number. The source and contains .entries for some of the well-known author indexes are cumulated annually, report series and these are filed alphabetically An important' feature of World Transindex by the report code, and then numerically by is that it includes many translations that are the report number, but most reports are filed published in the. selected article journals in- under the author's name in the author section. cluding a substantial number published as part The author section is housed separately of the US Joint Publications Research Service. from the rest of the index. It includes details These are not announced in other translations of translations which is not a periodical article. indexes. The list of periodicals currently trans- patent or standard. If there is no personal lated cover-to-cover is published in its issue author or editor, then it is entered under the number 1 and in the annual index. A micro- issuing organisation. Some items such as decrees fiche edition of World Transindex is also being and safety regulations are filed under the coun- considered. try of origin. The drawback of this index is that it does Patents and standards are filed by country of not provide subject index for retrospective origin. Patents are usually straightforward, being search by specific topics. numbered chronologically. In -the case of patents, sometimes the year of issue is a necess- World Transindex Database ary point of reference. Standards are filed alphabetically by the standards code, then by It is a database of World Transindex which is the number [4] . produced by means of the PASCAL system developed by CNRS., Information announced 4. World Transindex on translations is stored simultaneously in a central database. It permits the production It is published by the International Transla- of profile printouts. It is available for on-line tions Centre, Delf (the Netherlands) jointly access also fS]. Since 1st Sept 1980, this ~ata- with the Directorate General for Scientific and base was made available on-line to users as Technical Inform~tion Management of the file 33 of the Information Retrieval Service

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(IRS) in Frescati, Italy. This is accessed, from INDEXES PUBI.JSHED IN INDIA U.K. via the Dialtech Service of the Depart- 1) National Index of Translation (NIT) ment of Industry. World Transindex Database holds details of scientific and technical trans- The NIT is a monthly index of unpublished lations collected since 1978 by the International translations done in India, and being brought Translations Centre in the Netherlands and out by the Indian National Scientific Docu- CNRS. As the information is on-line, it is easy mentation Centre (INSOOC), New Delhi since to provide various approaches to informa- January 1981. It lists unpublished English trans- tion such as type of documents, target/source lations of scientific and technical documents. It languages, publication year, tide and subject covers periodic~ monographs/books, patents, index terms [13, 14] . standards and specifications, research reports, manuals, proceedings of seminars and symposia 5. Journals in Translation etc. published in foreign languages. The entries It is a guide to journals containing translations. are arranged under various subject headings It is published jointly by the International derived from Universal Decimal Classification Translations Centre, Delft, the Netherlands and scheme and within each subject heading accord- the British library Lending Division, Bostan ing to their authors [14]. NIT announced spa (U.K.). This publication lists journals which 2500 translated items in 1981. Each entry in are translated cover-to-cover, or selectively, the NIT provides information on author, trans- together with journals which contain transla- lated tide, source language, pages, citation, tions of articles selected from multiple sources. name of translation agency and translation It contains nearly 1000 tides, current and number. ceased and covers all subject fields. In addition Specimen Entry of NIT to the main alphabetical listing of titles, it provides a KWIC index, an index of original UOC No. 546.3.9 titles and a list of publishers and/or distributing Author OKADA Y, SANTO T agents. Translated title New surface treatment of mag- A comfiche version of Journals in Transla- nesium Uap anese ), 8 pp, tion is available from the Instituto de Infor- macion y Documentacion en Ciencia y Tecno- Cation Kinzoku Hyomen Girjutsu 1978, 29(12),661-4. logiya, Joaquin Costa 22, Madrid, [3, 11] . Translation Agency INSDOC, New Delhi Translation No. TN - 23177 6. Index Translationum At present, this publication is providing an It is an annual bibliqgraphy of translated books, author index and permuted subject index as published by the UNESCO since 1948. It supporting indexes. The inclusion of permuted covers only translated books in all the subjects subject index is the unique feature of this publi- from various countries of the World. The entries cation. However, this publication is deficient in are arranged by the name of countries and the following areas: within the country, under ten major divisions (1) NIT does not provide source index i.e. of Universal Decimal Classification. Under the· index of periodicals/publications indexed; subject headings, entries are arranged by author (2) In' . tati f th titl . consistency m presen atJ.on 0 e e and where appropnate, by editor or compiler f th . di al /d t . ..• 0 e pen 0 c s ocumen s. (for anthologies}, m alphabetJ.cal order. An alphabetical index of principal authors is pro- 2) DESIDOC Transindex vided at the end of the volume [12]. The thirtieth edition of index translationum - 1981 DESIDOC Transindex is the index of transla· contains 50, 428 books that were translated tions done at or procured by Defence Scientific during 1977 in seventy countries [13]. Information and Documentation Centre (DESI-

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DOC), Delhi. At present, it is an animal index 5) Index to Translations (BHEL) of English translations of periodical articles, Index to Translations is published by the Cor- reports, patents, conference proceedings, stand- porate Research and Development Division of ards and specifications, monographs, books, BHEL, Hyderabad. This index is a list of current manuals (instructions, operational, repair etc) holdings of translations available at various which are of interest to Defence R&D. This Technical Information Centres of BHEL. The index has been started since 1980. index is organised according to broad groups in this index the translations are arranged reflecting the product profile of BHEL and under broad subject headings. It provides disciplinary areas of interest such as Applied author, source, subject and translations num- Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Tribology etc. Entries ber indexes for searching information from are repeated in more than one group wherever various approaches. Each entry in the main they are of a multidisciplinary character. Each part of index provides information regarding provides information regarding author, trans- author, translated title, complete reference, lated title, reference and source language. An place of availability and translation number. author index is appended to the bibliographic part of the index. Index to Translations - 1980 3) Translation Bulletin lists translations acquired or carried out till April 1980 and contains 833 titles. It is a quarterly bulletin published by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Bombay. It is an index of English translations done at BARC and covers .translations mainly The author is grateful to Shri S.S. Murthy, in the field of nuclear science. The arrangement Director, DESIDOC and Shri, A. Chakraborty, of translations in this index is language-wise. Scientist-in-Charge, Translation for granting Each entry provides information regarding permission to publish this paper and to Shri BARC - translation number, translated title of V.K. Rangra, Scientist-in-Charge (Training & the articles, author and reference. It does not Research) for guidance and fruitful discussion. provide any supporting index such as author, subject, source etc. for search.

REFERENCES 4) NAL Technical Translations 1. Translations Register-Index 1982, 16(4). It is an index of scientific and technical trans- lation in J;:nglish in the field of aeronautics 2. Translating services at the Lending Division of British Library. Translation News 1978, 8(1), done at the National Aeronautical Laboratory, 7-9; BLL Review 1977,5(4). Bangalore. In this index, translations are arrang- ed under standard subject headings based on 3. Chillag, J.P.: Translation and translating services the NASA thesaurus. Each entry gives the at the Lending Division. Interlending Review name of the author, the translated title in 1980,8(4),136-137. English, the source of publication of the 4. Glover, Wendy: Services provided by Aslib relating original article and the NAL translation acces- to translations. Aslib Proceedings 1979, 31 (11), sion number. It provides author index and 525-529. language index. 5. Information on the International Translations NAL Technical Translations 1980 contains Centre. Translation News 1979,9(1/2),1-6. a complete list of 635 technical translations from French, German, Russian, Italian, - 6. New Index to translations (World Transindex). Library Association Recrd 1978, 8(11), 549. ese, Swedish, Czech, Dutch, Polish and Uk- ranian which were undertaken by the NAL 7. World Transindex an example of cooperation. upto the end of July 1980. Translation News 1978,8(2),1-12.

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8. Van Bergeijk, D.: Development in the biblio- 11. Journals in Translation - a guide to journals graphie control of translations with. particular containing translations. translation News, 1978, reference to the activities of the International 8(2),2. Translations Centre. Interlending Review 1980, 8(4),128-131. 12. Kent, Allen, Lancour, Harold and Derily, jery E. (ed) : Encyclopedia of library and information 9. Van Bergeijk, D.: Over the language barrier in science. New York, Marcel Dekker 1979, 26, information transfer: the role of the Interna- 479-481. tional Translation Centre. UNESCO Journal of 13. Index Translationum : UNESCO Journal of Infor- Information Science, Librarianship and Archives AdministNti~ 1983,3(3), 173-177. mation Science, Librananship and Archives Ad- ministration 1981, 111(2), 109. 10. Duckitt, Pauline: Translating and online. Aslib 14. National Index of Translations (NITj, 1982, Proceedings 1981, 33(7/8), 290-296. Part I.

Appendix -1

Technical Details of National and International Services

1. World Transindex 3. BLLD Announcement Bulletin Coverage Periodical literature, patents, Coverage Periodical literature, patents, standards, reports, books pro- standards, reports, books, pro- ceedings, etc. , ceedings, theses, etc. From all source languages From all source languages Into all target languages Into English only

On all the fields of science and On all the fields of science and technology technology Frequency Monthly Frequency Monthly Delay several months Delay several months

Issued by In tern ati on al Translations Cen- Issued by British Library Lending Divi- tre, Delft, the Netherlands sion Bostan Span (U.K.) Status In ternati onal Status National

2. Translations Register-Index

Coverage Periodical literature, patents, standards, reports, books, pro- 4. ASLIB Index of Unpublished Translations ceedings, etc. Coverage Periodical literature, patents, From all source languages standards, reports, books, pro- Into English only ceedings, etc. From On all the fields of science and all source languages technology Into English only

Frequency Semi-monthly On all the fields of science and Delay several rnon ths technology Frequency Issued by National Translations Centre Not published (USA) Maintained by : ASLlB. London Status National Status In temational

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5. Index Trtmslationum 6. National Index of Translations (India) Coverage Books only Coverage Periodical Iitera ture, mono- From all source languages graphs and books, patents, standards and specifications, Into all target languages proceedings, etc. On all subject fields From all source languages Frequency annual Into English only Delay several years Frequency Monthly Issued by UNESCO, Paris Delay several months Status International Issued by INS DOC, New Delhi Status National

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