C19 Century Index

The Nineteenth Century Index the most comprehensive and dynamic source for discovering
nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives.
C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title
Catalogue (NSTC), The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index, Periodicals Index Online and the Cumulative
Index to Niles' Register 18111849 to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.7 million
books and official publications, 70,000 archival collections and 22.7 million articles published in over
2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers. C19 Index now provides integrated access to 13
bibliographic indexes, including more than three million records from British Periodicals Collections
I and II, together with the expanded online edition of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century
Journalism (DNCJ).

About The Wellesley to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900

It is a great literary age, we have great literary men - but where are their works? A moment's
reflection gives us a reply to the question; we must seek them not in detached and avowed and
standard publications, but in periodical miscellanies. It is in these journals that the most eminent of
our recent men of letters have chiefly obtained their renown.
England and the English, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1833.
Periodical publishing in the 19th century was both voluminous and multifarious. Any and all aspects of
contemporary thought were represented through this burgeoning medium, from which many eminent
novelists and journalists emerged.
The scholarly importance of this material created an imperative to provide indexes through which it
could be accessed. Poole's own subject index was created in response to this need. However, until
1965 and Wellesley, there was no author index. The primary objective of Wellesley was to assist
scholars in assessing the significance of periodical articles by delivering accurate information on
provenance. This was a monumental undertaking, given that the vast majority of articles published in
Victorian periodicals were anonymous or pseudonymous.
Wellesley then, is an index to the authorship of articles, and a bibliography of articles written by each
contributor, and using each pseudonym. Citations of evidence are provided to support attributions of
authorship, along with brief biographical and vocational details. 45 important monthly and quarterly
titles are included, covering the period from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the

end of the century. The exception to this is the Edinburgh Review, which is indexed from first issue, in
1802. Wellesley does not index poetry.
Titles indexed:

Ainsworth's Magazine
The Atlantis
Bentley's Miscellany
Bentley's Quarterly Review
Blackwoods Edinburgh
Magazine
British and Foreign Review
British Quarterly Review
Contemporary Review
Cornhill Magazine
Dark Blue
Dublin Review

Dublin University
Magazine
Fortnightly Review
Fraser's Magazine
Home and Foreign Review
London and Westminster
Review (1836-1840)
London Quarterly Review
London Review (1829)
London Review (18351836)
Longmans Magazine
Macmillan's Magazine
Modern Review
Monthly Chronicle
National Review (18551864)
National Review (1883-)
New Monthly Magazine
(1821-1854)

New Quarterly Magazine

New Review
Nineteenth Century
North British Review
Oxford and Cambridge
Magazine
Prospective Review
Quarterly Review
Rambler
Saint Paul's
Scottish Review (1882-1900)
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
(1832-1855)
Temple Bar
Theological Review
University Magazine
Westminster Review (18241836, 1840-1900)

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals was originally published by the University of Toronto Press,
in 5 volumes between 1965 and 1988. Editor Walter Houghton was assisted by a staff team, a board
of editors, and by librarians and scholars from around the world. A CD-ROM edition of Wellesley was
published by Routledge in 1999, incorporating corrections and additions to the index published in
the Victorian Periodicals Review up to the end of 1997. It is this CD-ROM version on which The
Wellesley Index online is based, with data reproduced under licence from Taylor & Francis Group, an
informa business.
Corrections and additions to Wellesley published in Victorian Periodicals Review and elsewhere have
been indexed by Eileen Curran and made available through the Victorian Research Web
(http://victorianresearch.org/). The Curran Index continues to be updated, and includes information
on some additional periodicals not covered in the original Wellesley. Curran is essential for keeping up
to date with recent research into the authorship of Victorian periodical articles, and it has now been
integrated with the online Wellesley Index. Additions and corrections from Curran have been appended
to the relevant article, contributor and periodical records from Wellesley, while new records have been

created for Curran entries without a corresponding Wellesleyrecord. The full Curran Index can be
viewed using the Browse screen.

The Wellesley Index provides seamless linking between article

records, contributor and pseudonym records, and periodical introductions, and includes links to
article full text for selected titles in Periodicals Archive Online and British Periodicals for users with the
appropriate subscriptions. Click here for more information on British Periodicals

The Wellesley Index is also available within ProQuests

C19: The Nineteenth Century

Index, where it can be cross-searched alongside 19 million records from 10 other major indexes of
19th century content, including Pooles Index to Periodical Literature,Periodicals Index Online,
the Nineteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue, the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers,
and Palmers Index to The Times

C19 Index is

the bibliographic spine of 19th century research, providing integrated

access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and
archives. Users of C19 Index can query its 12 collections simultaneously, or can conduct more detailed
research using collection specific search screens. C19 Index is a dynamic and growing resource,
currently containing over 19 million bibliographic records for a full range of 19th century source
material.
C19: Index contents:
Books:
The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC)
The Nineteenth Century microfiche project from the British Library
Periodicals:
Periodicals Index Online (19th century content)
British Periodicals (19th century content)
American Periodicals Series (19th century content)
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900
The Curran Index of Additions to and Corrections of the Wellesley Index of Victorian Periodicals
Pooles Index to Periodical Literature
Official publications:
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (19th century content)
U.S. Congressional Serial Set (19th century content)

Archives:
Archive Finder (19th century content)
Newspapers:
Palmers Index to the Times (1790-1905)
Links to full text materials are available to customers of component collections.

Palmer's Index to The Times, 1790-1905

Key Facts
Format: Index
Media: Electronic/Online, CD-ROM
Coverage: 1790-1905
Total Sources Covered: 450+

Only available to current subscribers.

Palmers Index to The Times provides comprehensive electronic access to Palmers Index. It
contains more than 450 accumulated quarterly issues of Palmers Index from 1790-1905.

Palmer's Index to The Times

London bookseller Samuel Palmer published the first volume of his index to The Times in 1867.
Going back to October 1790, then publishing quarterly updates to December 1905, Palmer and his
successors indexed articles in every issue, creating a resource that has long been recognised as an
essential companion to the newspaper itself.Palmer's Index is the standard reference work for any
library holding the newspaper in print or on microfilm. The online version cumulates 450 quarterly
issues containing 3.7 million references on 28,000 pages. Page and column references are provided
for navigation of print or microfilm. Customers of Palmer's Full text Online (1800-1870) can link
directly from C19 Index to a high-resolution image of the relevant article and column within the
newspaper.
"The Times" is a registered trademark of Times Newspapers Limited, PO Box 945, Virginia Street,
London E1 9XY, a subsidiary of News International plc.

SEARCH IN INDEXES

All Indexes
Books:

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue

The Nineteenth Century microfiche project
Periodicals:

American Periodicals Series

British Periodicals
Niles' Register Index
Periodicals Index Online
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
Stead's Index to Periodicals
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Official Publications:

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

Proceedings of the Old Bailey
U.S. Serial Set
Archives:

Archive Finder
Newspapers:

Palmer's Index to The Times

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SWOT analysis developed by Albert Humphrey
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Library Literature is a indexing periodical published in 1933, New York
AA Code in 1908 by John Minto

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Cutters Rules for Dictionary Catalogue 1876

It was Charles Ammi Cutter who first gave a generalised set of rules for subject
indexing in his Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue (RDC) published in 1876.
Cutter never used the term indexing; he used the term cataloguing.

Kaisers Systematic Indexing, 1911

Developed by Julius Otto Kaiser
It is a systematized alphabetical subject heading practice
Kaiser was the first person who applied the idea of Cutter in indexing micro
documents in the library of Tariff Commission as its librarian
He categorized the component terms into two fundamental categories: (1) Concrete
and (2) Process.
Concrete refers to l Things, place and abstract terms, not signifying any action or
process; e.g. gold, India, Physics, etc.
Process refers to
*Mode of treatment of the subject by the author
*An action or process described in the document
*An adjective related to the concrete as component of the subject. In short, Kaisers
achievements regarding subject indexing are:
categorization of composite terms through classificatory approach for the first time;
a general rule of order of precedence, i.e. the process term should follow the
concrete term;
definition of those terms, of which process is identified properly, that is, he
gave the characteristics of process by which it can be identified properly;
double entry system for a subject dealing with place/locality; and elaborate system of
references.

Chain Indexing
Developed by Dr. S. R. Ranganathan
It is also called / known as chain procedure
It is a method of deriving alphabetical subject entries from the chain of successive
subdivisions of subjects needed to be indexed leading from general to specific level
According to Ranganathan, chain indexing is a procedure for deriving class index
entry (i.e. subject index entry) which refers from a class to its class number in a more or
less mechanical way.
The term chain refers to a modulated sequence of subclasses or isolates

Relational Indexing
devised by J. E. L. Farradane in 1950
This indexing systems also known as the System of Relational Analysis
Two or more isolates linked by relational operators
Relational operators are special symbols which link the isolates to show how they are
related and each operator is denoted by a slash and a special symbol having unique
meaning
Farradanes marked improvement in the area of subject indexing was:
** analysis of relationship among terms;
** use of relational operators; and

** one to one relationship among analets.

Coatess Subject Indexing
Developed by E. J. Coates
From the contributions of Cutter, Kaiser and Ranganathan, the concept of Term
Significance was drawn
Coates has developed the idea of Thing and Action like Kaisers Concrete and
Process
PRECIS (PREserved Context Index System)
Developed by Dereck Austin in 1974
an alternative procedure for deriving subject headings and generating index entries
for British National Bibliography (BNB) which since 1952, was following Chain
Indexing.
Syntax and Semantics of PRECIS

PRECIS consist of two inter-related sets of working procedures:

1. Syntactical
2. Semantic.
The PRECIS is based on two principles
1. Principle of Context Dependency
2. Principle of One-to One Relationship

to achieve the principle of context-dependency, Two-Line-Three-Part entry structure

is followed in PRECIS
Formats of PRECIS Index : There are three kinds of format in PRECIS:
1. Standard Format,
2. Inverted Format and
3. Predicate Transformation

COMPASS (Computer Aided Subject System)

In 1990, it was decided to revise UKMARC and to replace PRECIS by a more

simplified system of subject indexing As a result Computer Aided Subject System
(COMPASS) was introduced for BNB from 1991.

POPSI (POstulate-based Permuted Subject Indexing)

Developed by Dr G Bhattacharyya, 1984

Post- Coordinate Indexing Systems

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Uniterm indexing system

Martimer Taube devised the Uniterm indexing system in 1953
to organise a collection of documents at the Armed Services Technical Information
Agency (ASTIA) of Atomic Energy Commission, Washington
The system is based on concept coordination
Uniterm indexing system had a number of distinctive characteristics:

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2.
3.
4.
5.

Indexing by single words only;

Terms are extracted from the text of the document indexed;
No control over those terms;
Indexing, being reduced to word extraction, can be conducted by relatively
low-level personnel.

Optical Coincidence Card / Peek-a-boo

Peek-a-boo is the trade name of the optical coincidence card.

It is also called Batten Cards.

Edge-Notched Card
Indexing on Edge-Notched card is based on punched card system. Their value is
limited to very small collection

AUTOMATIC INDEXING

Keyword Indexing

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of USA is said to be the first organization to
use the machine-produced keywords index from Title since 1952
use of computers in generating indexes of documents started from KWIC indexing

KWIC indexing

KWIC indexing developed by H.P. Luhn

use of computers in generating indexes of documents started from KWIC indexing
American Chemical Society established the value of KWIC after its adoption in 1961
for its publication Chemical Titles:
This index was based on the keywords in the title of a paper and was produced with
the help of computers

Each entry in KWIC index consists of three parts:

a) Keywords: Significant or subject denoting words which serve as approach

terms;

b) Context: Keywords selected also specify the particular context of the

document (i.e.
usually the rest of the terms of the title).
c) Identification or Location Code

Variations of KWIC i.e KWOC and KWAC

1. KWOC (key-word out-of-context)

The KWOC is a variant of KWIC index. Here, each keyword is taken out and
printed separately in the left hand margin with the complete title in its normal
order printed to the right

2. KWAC (key-word Augmented-in-context) Index

** KWAC also stands for key-word-and-context.

** KWAC is also called enriched KWIC or KWOC.
** CBAC (Chemical Biological Activities) of BIOSIS uses KWAC index

Other Versions of keyword index

KWWC (Key-Word-With-Context) Index

KEYTALPHA (Key-Term Alphabetical) Index : Keytalpha index is being used in the
Oceanic Abstract.
WADEX (Word and Author Index). It is an improved version of KWIC. It is used in
Applied Mechanics Review. AKWIC (Author and keyword in context) index is another
version of WADEX.index

DKWTC (Double KWIC) Index : It is another improved version of KWIC

index

KLIC (Key-Letter-In-Context) Index

Library and Information Science Abstracts (1969)

Bowker-Saur
Library and Information Science Abstracts, (LISA) is an international abstracting and indexing
tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA covers the
literature in Library and information science (LIS) since 1969 and currently abstracts 440+
periodicals from 68+ countries and in 20+ languages.
Library and Information Science Abstracts is complemented by the Current Research in Library
and Information Science (CRLIS) database. This database provides international coverage of
research in progress or recently completed research projects in the fields broadly defined by
librarianship and information science. Bowker-Saur has provided CRLIS records through
December, 1999 only

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INFLIBNET Centre was launched by Prof. Mahendra P Lama, Vice Chancellor, Sikkim
University during the inaugural session of 8th PLANNER 2012 on 1st March, 2012. The
InfoPort is designed and developed by the INFLIBNET Centre to serve as a comprehensive
gateway to all Indian scholarly content. The gateway open-ups the Indian scholarly content
scattered over the Internet through an integrated interface that support search, browse and
multiple listing. The resources covered in the infoPort are organized under ten major categories
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Glossary
An alphabetically arranged list of the specialized vocabulary of a given subject or field of study, with brief definitions,
often appearing at the end of a book or at the beginning of a long entry in a technical reference work. Long glossaries
may beseparately published (example: The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983). Glossaries
are also available online (for examples see the British Library's Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. For
a searchabledirectory of

online

glossaries

with lexicon and vocabulary. See also:gloss.

Lexicon

and topical dictionaries,

see Glossarist.

Compare

Originally,

a dictionary of

Greek,

Hebrew,

Arabic,

or

some

other

literary language.

In

modern usage,

a specialized dictionary or glossary of the words of a specific subject or field of study. In linguistics, a list of all the
lexical items (lexemes) in a given language. See also: vocabulary.
Thesaurus
A book of synonyms

and

near-synonyms

in

written language,

usually arranged conceptually,

although dictionaryarrangement is not uncommon. The first thesaurus of the English language, published in 1852,
was compiled by Peter Mark Roget. For an online thesaurus of the English language, see Merriam-Webster OnLine.
Also

refers

to

an alphabetically

arranged lexicon of terms

comprising

the specialized vocabulary of

an

academic disciplineor field of study, showing the logical and semantic relations among terms, particularly a list
of subject headings ordescriptors used as preferred terms in indexing the literature of the field. In information
retrieval, a thesaurus can be used to locate broader terms and related terms if the user wishes to expand retrieval,
or narrower terms to make a search statement more specific. A well-designed thesaurus also enables the indexer to
maintain consistency in the assignment ofindexing terms to documents. Plural: thesauri. See also: controlled
vocabulary, lead-in vocabulary, and metathesaurus.
Dictionary
A single-volume or multivolume reference work containing brief explanatory entries for terms and topics related to a
specificsubject or field of inquiry, usually arranged alphabetically (example: Dictionary of Neuropsychology). The
entries in a dictionary are usually shorter than those contained in an encyclopedia on the same subject, but the word
"dictionary" is often used in the titles of works that should more appropriately be called encyclopedias
(example: Dictionary of the Middle Ages in 13 volumes). See also: biographical dictionary.
A language dictionary lists the words of a language in alphabetical order, giving orthography, syllabication,
pronunciation,etymology, definition, and standard usage. Some dictionaries also include synonyms, antonyms, and
brief biographicaland gazetteer information. In an unabridged dictionary, an attempt is made to be comprehensive in
the number of terms included (example: Webster's Third New International Dictionary). An abridged dictionary
provides a more limited selection of words and usually less information in each entry (Webster's New College
Dictionary). In a visual dictionary, each term is illustrated. See also: desk dictionary and pocket dictionary.
Chronologically

1876

The American Library Association (ALA)

1877

The Library Association, London 1877

1909

The Special Libraries Association (SLA)

1915

The Association for Library and Information Science

Education (ALISE)

1919

All India Public Library Association

1924

Association for Information Management (ASLIB)

1932

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

1933

All India Rural Library Association

1933

Government of India Library Association (GILA)

1933

Indian Library Association (ILA)

1936

The Society of American Archivists (SAA)

1937

The American Society for Information Science (ASIS)

1946

The Canadian Library Association (CLA)

1955

Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information

Centers (IASLIC)

1966

All India College Library Association

1969

Indian Association of Teachers of Library and

Information Science (IATLIS)

1969

Society for Information Science (SIS)

1972

The Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF)

1980

Medical Library Association of India (MALI)

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Free Books to Read Audio Library

Free Books to Read is simple and easy to use. To find the e-book of your choice simply click on any letter
of the alphabet. This will lead you to a screen with titles starting with that letter. Click on the link and you
can read your e-book. This site has another very nice feature; it will read the book to you.

Read easily Ebooks Online Library

This site offers a wide selection of literary works and provides a brief biography for each author. Texts are
available for the visually impaired. To do this, the site allows you to change the size and colour of the text.
This digital library has been designed to provide an adaptive reading experience! Just click on "set
display" and select the font size, font color and background color

Perseus Digital Library

If you're into Classics this is the site for you! Project Perseus offers free copies of classic works by such
authors as Demosthenes, Cicero, Euripides, Hesiod, and Plato and on and on. Besides these primary
works, there are also commentaries and histories by modern classicists.

Internet Classics Archive

Over 400 classical works by 59 different authors, mainly Greco-Roman (some Chinese and Persian) all in
English translation.

Great Books and Classics

This site pulls together several classics sites into one list of selections.

Aesop's Fables

This collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables. Also included are Real Audio narrations,
127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen with 209 Grimm's Fairy Tales.

MIT Complete Works of Shakespeare

All the plays in HTML format, but with no searching ability at this time.

Google Shakespeare
The complete plays of Shakespeare, fully searchable by phrase. Want to know how often tyranny is
mentioned in The Tempest? Search the book and you will be taken to each page.
Audio Books
Literal Systems Audio Books
LiteralSystems audiobooks are mp3 file recordings of human-voiced readings and performances of
classic literary works, download to your itunes, ipod or windows media player.

Free Classic Audio Books

This site has a short list of audio books that can be downloaded in an mp3 format or onto your ipod. The
site also offers an interesting feature of text with narration.

Audiobooks For Free

Audiobooksforfree is a fantastic site that offers a wide selection of free fiction and nonfiction audio books.
The fiction section offers audio books in many different genres such as adventure, westerns, classics and
mysteries. A children's area offers jokes, fairy tales, science and folktale books. The site also has a large
selection of adult non fiction from poetry to philosophy and humor.

Librivox
Librivox's mission statement is to make all public domain books available as free audiobooks. This site
offers a selection of fiction, poetry, short works and works in other languages in an audio book format.

Free Books to Read

This site offers free e-books, but it will also read your e-book to you. To find your desired title, click on the
letter of the alphabet your book corresponds with and then find your title.

Audio Book Radio

Audiobookradio is an online radio station that broadcasts audio books. The site offers a selection of audio
books that play 24/7. To check when a title will be read just look at the program schedule