Online Access to Unpublished Scientific Translations

Abstract

In recent years, the translations of scientific and technical documents have been gaining importance as a 'Source of information. Before 1980, only published translations, such as cover-to-cover, could be searched on-line because these were included in various national and international bibliographical data-bases along with other documents. Now unpublished translations can also be searched on-line. The International Translations Centre (ITC), Delft. Netherlands developed a data-base on translations (published and unpublished) known as WORLD TRANSINDEX DATA·BASE and made it available on-line since September 1980 as file·33 on ESAIIS (European Space Agency Information Retrieval Service) Frascati, Italy. The manual INFORMASCIENCE for operating World Transindex Data-Base is published jointly by the ITC and Central Nationale de La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Online information search on translations can be carried out by various approaches viz.,  target/source languages, source documents, year of publication, title, author, subject, etc.