List of Abstracts, Their Publisher and Year of Publication

Name of the Abstract	Publisher	Year
Physics Abstracts	INSPEC, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) [Formerly Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)], London	1898
Chemical Abstract	American Shemical Society	1907
Biological Abstracts	BIOSIS Previews, Thomson Reuters	1926
Psychological Abstracts	PsycINFO, American Psychological Association	1927
Dissertation Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) or the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT)	University Microfilms International (UMI) / ProQuest, Ann Arbor	1938
Sociological Abstract	ProQuest	1952
Current Contents	Thomson Reuters (Previously Institute for Scientific Information), Philadelphia	1961
Indian Science Abstracts (ISA)	National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR)	1965
SCOPUS: An Abstract and Citation Database	Elsevier	1966
Documentation Abstracts	American Chemical Society (Division of Chemical Literature), American Society for Information Science and Special Libraries Association	1966
PsycINFO	American Psychological Association	1967
Indian Library Science Abstract (ILSA)	Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC), Calcutta	1967
Inspec	Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) [Formerly Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)], London	1967
Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)	ProQuest (Previously by Bowker-Saur)	1969
Web of Science: A Citation Index	Thomson Reuters	1970
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts	EBSCO Industries, Birmingham, Alabama	1984

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