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| [[Category:TS Adyar|Union Index]] | | #REDIRECT [[Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals]] |
| [[Category:Research tools|Union Index]]
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| The Union Index to Theosophical Peridiodicals is a database established and maintained by the [[Campbell Theosophical Research Library]] of Sydney, Australia, which is affiliates with the [[Theosophical Society in Australia]]. The website is at [http://www.austheos.org.au/indices/pindex.htm http://www.austheos.org.au/indices/pindex.htm].
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| Indices are arranged by:
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| * place (country) of publication
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| * chronologically by date of first issue
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| * alphabetically by first editor or founder
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| * as subsets:
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| ** Alice Bailey, etc.
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| ** Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner
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| ** Esoteric School
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| ** Judge, Point Loma, Pasadena, U.L.T., etc.
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| ** Outline and Special Indices (not Plain, i.e. not included in Search and List Kit)
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| ** Series, including Pamphlets, regular and irregular
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| ** Theosophy-Science
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| In most of the indices, there is an entry for each article in the periodical, in this order (where '''n''' represents a number):
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| * Journal, abbreviated as 4-7 characters, such as '''ThQly''' for ''Theosophical Quarterly''
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| * Year, in the format '''ynnnn''', such as '''y1927'''
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| * Volume, in the format '''vnn''', such as '''v17'''
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| * Issue, in the format '''inn''', such as '''i5'''
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| * Month (or quarter) spelled out, such as '''May'''
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| * Page, in the format '''pnnn''', such as '''p138'''
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| * Title, following a single dash
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| * Author, following two dashes
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| The recently redesigned website facilitates searching by keyword, title, or author. A shortcut to the keyword search feature is [http://www.austheos.org.au/csearch/ui-search.htm http://www.austheos.org.au/csearch/ui-search.htm]. As of June 1, 2012, the index included 214,401 entries relating to 151 periodicals.
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