translation made by all of them. In the United Kingdom this agency
is ASLIB (Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureau)
Each of these agencies collects details of translations made by the
organisations in its own country which are cooperating in the
scheme. In the UK these total more than 100. The information
from Commonwealth countries is received, in various forms and
at irregular intervals, by the British Commonwealth Scientific
office which acts as a clearing house. The data are transferred to
stencils from which index cards are run off. The cards are distributed
to each of the participating agencies who file them under the source
journals. ASLIB's index contains some 200,000 mainly scientific
and technical references from all languages into English. ASLIB
also has an exchange agreement with the 'Centre de Documentation
du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique' (CNRS) in Paris
whereby cards are received for translations into French, mainly
from Russian.
4.2.2 There are two published guides to translations which are
international in scope. 'Index translationum' is published annually
by UNESCO. The latest volume, the 18th in the series, lists 36,196
translated books published in 1965 in 70 countries. The bibliogra
phies, arranged by countries in French alphabetical order, are pre
sented under the ten major headings of UDC. 'World Index of
Scientific Translations' is a new quarterly self-cumulating publi
cation produced by the European Translation Centre, or ETC
(Library of the Technical University, 101 Doelenstraat, Delft
(Holland)). It is concerned particularly with translations from
Russian and other Slav languages, and from Chinese and Japanese,
into all western languages. Its scope is limited primarily to scienti
fic subjects but some other translations are included. The World
Index cumulates the lists of translations notified to ETC which
have been issued approximately monthly since October 1966. It
is arranged by the titles of the journals and gives the bibliographical
reference followed by the distributing organisation and price.
4.2.3 Among the important publications providing details of
translations into English are the 'Translations Bulletin of the
{British) National Lending Library for Science and Technology',
and the list of Russian translated books published by the same
organisation. In Australia, the Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), has since 1952 issued
a monthly bulletin entitled 'Abstracts of Published Papers and List
of Translations'The latter are those prepared by the organisation
itself during the previous monththey are listed under their authors,
giving their translated titles and bibliographical reference. In the
USA the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) translates
foreign literature at the request of Federal Agencies. A guide to
JPRS Research Translations 1957-66, has been published by Re
search and Microfilm Publications Inc.
4.2.4 Many periodicals help to break down the language barrier.
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