In 1999, when work began on the
Repertorium Veterrimarum Societatum Litterariarum, initially the
source of abbreviations was
the one designated below as Reuss,
a particularly rich source for the 18th century publications.
Within a year or so, regular use was also made of the tool designated
below by
RSLC, indispensible for 19th century
science journals.
In 2004, only a few hours of work were required with the tool designated
below as
Poole, which
yielded abbreviations for only two society journals
(Archaeologia and the
Journal of the Society of Arts
).
In mid-July of 2004, a systematic effort was begun to gather
and expand a representative sample of
the abbreviations used in v.1 & v.2 of the tool designated
below as Pogg.
Only about the first 100 pages have been thoroughly documented.
In June of 2005, the search engine of the JSTOR archive of
old journals
was used to find journal-title abbreviations occurring in the journal
literature itself.
his area is intended to indicate which sources were employed in
locating journal title abbreviations that were roughly contemporaneous
with the journal publications themselves.