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Journal-Title Abbreviations in Old Journals in the Repertorium Veterrimarum Societatum Litterariarum
  Initial I, Ornaten May of 2005 the collection of sources employed in determining journal-title abbreviations for the journals listed in the Repertorium were all bibliographical in nature. The sources were: Pogg., v.1 & 2 ; Poole; Reuss; and RSLC.
A Brief Chronology A few months earlier, it had been decided that it might be useful to see how journal titles were being abbreviated in the bibliographical references in journal articles of the day, rather that just in bibliographical tools of the day. After a preliminary page-by-page survey of the 1750 volume of the Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society of London), it was realized that the expenditure of effort was disproportionate to the quantity of abbreviations found.

In June, 2005 it occurred to the Editor that useful results might be obtained fairly expeditiously using the ingenious search engine at the JSTOR archive of the Philosophical Transactions. The technique involved searching on abbreviations that had already been discovered using the bibliographical tools. The search option was a boolean AND search, rather than searching as an exact phrase.

Typically some variant abbreviations were found this way. In addition, two other things usually happened. Firstly, the results often suggested other search statements. And, secondly, in the process of examining the pages of the journal that were retrieved, journal-title abbreviations for completely unrelated journals were discovered.

In July, 2005 the above technique was broadened to cover other journals in the JSTOR archive. Currently, the following journals in the JSTOR archive (and elsewhere) have been used:

Journal-Title Abbreviations in Old Journals in the
Repertorium Veterrimarum Societatum Litterariarum
Arranged By Founding Date of Each Journal
1665-1699
1700-1739
1740-1759
1760-1779
1780-1799
1800-1809
1810-1819
1820-1829
1830-1839
1840-1849
1850-1859
1860-1869
1870-1879
1880-1889
1890-1899
1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-2000
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First Published 2005, June 28
Modified 2010, July 2
Jim Parrott, Editor
Repertorium Veterrimarum Societatum Litterariarum
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