Tracing and accessing Arabic periodicals : an overview

Arabic periodicals are mostly published in the Arab countries and are usually untraceable from the international indexing and abstracting services. This article presents a brief descriptive overview of the characteristics of Arabic periodicals and explores the existing bibliographical control tools...

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Main Authors: Suja', Balqis, Zakaria, Maznah
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2011
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description Arabic periodicals are mostly published in the Arab countries and are usually untraceable from the international indexing and abstracting services. This article presents a brief descriptive overview of the characteristics of Arabic periodicals and explores the existing bibliographical control tools as found in the literature. The discussion encompasses issues on Arabic periodicals’ bibliographical access and physical access. The Internet was searched to identify available current contents lists, individual indexes, collective indexes (general and specific), institutional indexes, and bibliographic databases (general and specific). The final part of the article will include a review on Malaysian Union List of Serials and Katalog Induk Kebangsaan (Malaysian union catalogue) on whether retrieval using the descriptor terms will yield local Arabic periodicals collection available in the database. The results showed the extent to which the available information on Arabic periodicals is helpful for local libraries facilitate Arabic periodicals reference.
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spelling iium-61112024-11-14T08:24:11Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/6111/ Tracing and accessing Arabic periodicals : an overview Suja', Balqis Zakaria, Maznah Z665 Library Science. Information Science Arabic periodicals are mostly published in the Arab countries and are usually untraceable from the international indexing and abstracting services. This article presents a brief descriptive overview of the characteristics of Arabic periodicals and explores the existing bibliographical control tools as found in the literature. The discussion encompasses issues on Arabic periodicals’ bibliographical access and physical access. The Internet was searched to identify available current contents lists, individual indexes, collective indexes (general and specific), institutional indexes, and bibliographic databases (general and specific). The final part of the article will include a review on Malaysian Union List of Serials and Katalog Induk Kebangsaan (Malaysian union catalogue) on whether retrieval using the descriptor terms will yield local Arabic periodicals collection available in the database. The results showed the extent to which the available information on Arabic periodicals is helpful for local libraries facilitate Arabic periodicals reference. 2011 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/6111/1/poster1trial.pub Suja', Balqis and Zakaria, Maznah (2011) Tracing and accessing Arabic periodicals : an overview. In: Seminar Kebangsaan Perpustakaan Akademik 2011, 5-7 July 2011, Kota Bharu. https://sites.google.com/site/seminarkpa2011/
spellingShingle Z665 Library Science. Information Science
Suja', Balqis
Zakaria, Maznah
Tracing and accessing Arabic periodicals : an overview
title Tracing and accessing Arabic periodicals : an overview
title_full Tracing and accessing Arabic periodicals : an overview
title_fullStr Tracing and accessing Arabic periodicals : an overview
title_full_unstemmed Tracing and accessing Arabic periodicals : an overview
title_short Tracing and accessing Arabic periodicals : an overview
title_sort tracing and accessing arabic periodicals : an overview
topic Z665 Library Science. Information Science
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