The Coverage Of Indian Literature In Social Science Bibliographic Databases On Cd-Rom - Sociofile, Econlit, Lisa and Psychlit

The study of four bibliographic databases in social science on CD-ROM, namely, Sociofile, EconLIT, LISA and PsycLit, show that the coverage of Indian publications and Indian periodicals, on the average, amounts to only 0.5 % and 1.16 % respectively. Of the 626 Indian periodicals published in Sociology, Economics, Library and Information Science, and Psychology, 489 (78.1%) periodicals are published in the English language.  Among these 489...