The Chemical Literature of Germany ERNEST F. SPITZER Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., Groton, Conn. Revised by VLADIMIR SLAMECKA
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Since the appearance of the Chemisches Journal in 1778, the German chemical literature has rep resented a sizable segment of the literature of chemistry as a whole. Chemisches Zentralblatt, the earliest of the abstract journals, was widened in scope in 1949 to cover the chemical literature of the world. Aside from language difficulties, a search of German chemical literature involves no essential change in methods employed for search of any other area of chemical literature.
y h e extensive and rapid recovery of the postwar German economy, at least for West Germany, has been fully shared b y the German chemical industry, and the German chemical literature has also participated i n the general upswing. T h e objective of this paper is to b r i n g earlier information (24) u p to date, to provide a broad view of the current picture w i t h regard to German chemical literature, and to detail some of the major sources of chemical literature n o w available i n West and East Germany. Periodicals T h e trend toward a general reduction of German periodical output during the 1939-1945 period, w h i c h was the inevitable outgrowth of a wartime economy, has been definitely reversed. "Deutsche Bibliographie der Zeitschriften 1945-1952" (6) lists 11,408 periodicals appearing i n that period i n the German language. O f the 1077 scientific periodicals appearing i n West Germany i n 1959 ( 1 6 ) , the majority were of chemical interest; i n 1956, Chemical Abstracts already covered 473 West German serials ( 1 5 ) . T h e German Democratic Republic (East Ger m a n y ) , where once most of the chemical journals were published, accounts for a smaller fraction of German chemical publication. Aside from "Deutsche Bibliographie der Zeitschriften 1945-1952," the second (1952) edition of "Periodica C l i i m i c a " (18) is a reliable source of information on German periodicals u p to 1952. Corresponding to the " L i s t of Periodicals A b 136 SEARCHING THE CHEMICAL LITERATURE Advances in Chemistry; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1961.
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stracted b y Chemical Abstracts," "Periodica C h i m i c a " lists titles, abbreviations, tide changes, mergers, suspensions, a n d publishers' addresses for periodicals abstracted i n Chemisches Zentralblatt, b u t does not indicate library locations, nor is it brought u p to date b y annual supplements.
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U n t i l the fourth edition of the " W o r l d L i s t of Scientific Periodicals" is p u b lished, a good source of information on newer German periodicals is the annual amendments to the t h i r d edition, published since 1953 i n Chemistry
