Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals

The Union Index of Theosophical Peridiodicals is a database established and maintained by the Campbell Theosophical Research Library of Sydney, Australia, which is affiliated with the Theosophical Society in Australia. It is a major source of information about 151 periodicals, and is continually growing.

The website is at Index of Theosophical Periodicals.

Lists of periodicals

On the Contents page, the website lists periodicals in several ways:

• name of publication ("Full List")
• place (country) of publication
• chronologically by date of first issue
• alphabetically by first editor or founder
• as subsets:
  • Alice Bailey, etc.
  • Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner
  • Esoteric School
  • Judge, Point Loma, Pasadena, U.L.T., etc.
  • Outline and Special Indices (not Plain, i.e. not included in Search and List Kit)
  • Series, including Pamphlets, regular and irregular
  • Theosophy-Science

Arrangement of index entries

In most of the indices, there is an entry for each article in the periodical, in this order (where n represents a number):

• Journal, abbreviated as 4-7 characters, such as ThQly for Theosophical Quarterly
• Year, in the format ynnnn, such as y1927
• Volume, in the format vnn, such as v17
• Issue, in the format inn, such as i5
• Month (or quarter) spelled out, such as May
• Page, in the format pnnn, such as p138
• Title, following a single dash
• Author, following two dashes

Searching

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.