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Dear all It is really good to see the topic article indexing is the focus of discussion in LIS forum for some time. I fully agree with the comments made by Mr C U Navalgund that this is a value added service mostly for in-house members and should be taken up by professionals if time and manpower permit. In GIPE Library, we have been bringing out 'Fortnightly List of articles on India' since 1967 which has been continuing uninterruptedly till date. We do index all articles on India that appear in all Indian and foreign journals and four financial newspapers which have been subscribed by our Library. In fact, four years back, in our Institute itself, some discussion was going on about the viability of this service when we started computerisation of the library. However, after examining several such services and databases of articles, we have decided to continue with our service. The service has been well-appreciated by our faculty and also outside members. Even there are non-members who subscribe to our articles list in hard copy format. Thus, from my own experience, I strongly feel the need of such service at least in libraries attached to such research institutions who do research pertaining to socio-economic problems of India. With regards Prabhash N. Rath, Ph. D. Documentation Officer Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics B M C C Road Pune - 411004 (India) Tel: +91-20-25650287 (O), +91-20-25678311 (R.) E-mail: prabhash@gipe.ernet.in, prabhashrath@yahoo.com
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