Paper No. 13
Presentation Time: 11:30 AM
STATUS OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL OF PRE-1900 GEOSCIENCE LITERATURE
There are several print bibliographies that cover the literature
before 1900. The Bibliography of North American Geology (1785-1948)
was incorporated into GeoRef as a special project. But other non North
American bibliographies, for example, Repertorium commentationum
a societatibus litterariis editarum, 1665-1800; The Royal Society (Great
Britain), Catalogue of scientific papers 1800-1900; Agassiz, Louis,
Bibliographia zoologiae et geologiae, 1848; Taschenbuch fur die
gesammte Mineralogie, 1807-1829; Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie,
Geologie and Palaontologie, 1830-1900; Bibliographia geologica:
1896-1906; and Annuaire geologique universel : revue de geologie &
paleontology, 1885-1896 were not entered into GeoRef. Should
they be included? Is coverage of major geological topics and/or journals
missing from GeoRef? How accessible is the literature from this time
period? As libraries move older material to remote storage, do we
have the tools to find and recall this material, particularly the journal
literature?
The mathematicians are creating Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics, ERAM, a digital archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868-1942 and a database based on the "Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik." Is a similar project feasible for the geosciences?