Abstract:
Co - operative endeavours in Library end Documentation Systems demands conversion of various practices adopted in bibliographical references to the standards set by the national and international documentation systems. As a case study, in this paper the disparity in the abbreviations of Indian periodicals using different standards
such as the World List , Chemical Abstracts,
Nuclear Science Abstracts, International Nuclear Information System, and the Indian Standards a re discussed. A generalised approach to the problem through a computer programme is proposed. A COBOL programme f o r K-400 system is developed and the details described. Using the programme, some 900 Indian periodical titles are abbreviated .
The programme can serve as a small sub routine to transfer the Indian periodical titles in a standardized way before any machine readable input preparation.