7-609: The International Philosophical Bibliography ( IPB ), also known in French as Répertoire bibliographique de la philosophie (RBP), is a bibliographic database covering publications on the history of philosophy and continental philosophy . The database comprises records of publications in over 30 languages. Annually, about 12,000 records are added. The indexes include, among other elements, over 84,000 names of authors, editors, translators, reviewers, and collaborators, as well as more than 3,000 commentaries on philosophical works, making it
14-455: A new type of information resource. Online interactive retrieval became commercially viable in the early 1970s over private telecommunications networks. The first services offered a few databases of indexes and abstracts of scholarly literature. These databases contained bibliographic descriptions of journal articles that were searchable by keywords in author and title, and sometimes by journal name or subject heading. The user interfaces were crude,
21-491: Is a database of bibliographic records . This is an organised online collection of references to published written works like journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings , reports, government and legal publications, patents and books . In contrast to library catalogue entries, a majority of the records in bibliographic databases describe articles and conference papers rather than complete monographs , and they generally contain very rich subject descriptions in
28-732: The early 1960s computers were used to digitize text for the first time; the purpose was to reduce the cost and time required to publish two American abstracting journals, the Index Medicus of the National Library of Medicine and the Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). By the late 1960s, such bodies of digitized alphanumeric information, known as bibliographic and numeric databases, constituted
35-450: The form of keywords , subject classification terms, or abstracts . A bibliographic database may cover a wide range of topics or one academic field like computer science . A significant number of bibliographic databases are marketed under a trade name by licensing agreement from vendors, or directly from their makers: the indexing and abstracting services . Many bibliographic databases have evolved into digital libraries , providing
42-587: The full text of the organised contents: for instance CORE also organises and mirrors scholarly articles and OurResearch develops a search engine for open access content in Unpaywall . Others merge with non-bibliographic and scholarly databases to create more complete disciplinary search engine systems, such as Chemical Abstracts or Entrez . Prior to the mid-20th century, individuals searching for published literature had to rely on printed bibliographic indexes , generated manually from index cards . "During
49-833: The world's most complete index in Philosophy. Since 1934, the IPB has been developed by the Higher Institute of Philosophy at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), first in Leuven and since 1978 in Louvain-la-Neuve . The online version was launched by Peeters Publishers in 1997 and continues to be updated quarterly. This philosophy -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bibliographic database A bibliographic database
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