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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: Article
Language:English
Published: Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia 2011
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Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/34015/1/8_Balqis_OK.pdf
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spelling my.usm.eprints.34015 http://eprints.usm.my/34015/ Tracing and accessing arabic periodicals : An overview Suja’, Balqis Zakaria, Maznah Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources 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 the 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. Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/34015/1/8_Balqis_OK.pdf Suja’, Balqis and Zakaria, Maznah (2011) Tracing and accessing arabic periodicals : An overview. Jurnal PPM: Journal of Malaysian Librarians, 5. pp. 61-74. ISSN 1823-6308 http://www.myjurnal.my/public/browse-journal-view.php?id=271
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topic Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
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Suja’, Balqis
Zakaria, Maznah
Tracing and accessing arabic periodicals : An overview
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 the 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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author Suja’, Balqis
Zakaria, Maznah
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Zakaria, Maznah
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title Tracing and accessing arabic periodicals : An overview
title_short 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_sort tracing and accessing arabic periodicals : an overview
publisher Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia
publishDate 2011
url http://eprints.usm.my/34015/1/8_Balqis_OK.pdf
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http://www.myjurnal.my/public/browse-journal-view.php?id=271
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