Comprehensive Index 1996

The present Comprehensive Index 1996 replaces the Comprehensive Index 1990 and its diskette update Comprehensive Index 1994 on the Landolt-Börnstein Directory Disk 1.1. It covers all volumes - more than 200 - of the New Series and the 6th Edition of LANDOLT-BÖRNSTEIN published up to the end of 1995. The Comprehensive Index consists of three chapters and a guide "How to find Keywords and Volumes", printed on yellow pages. In addition to the individual keywords topical keywords have been included. Also enclosed is a CD-ROM containing not only the full text of the Comprehensive Index 1996, but also the update of the Substance Index 1993.

A subject index, "compiled in compliance with the provisions of a joint resolution approved March 3, 1897, which directs the preparation of an index to all publications of the government from 1881, the date at which the Descriptive catalogue of government publications by Ben: Perley Poore terminates, to 1893, the date at which the index by the superintendent of documents begins, said index to conform in its general plan to ... [Ames'] Comprehensive index of government publications from 1889 to 1893, ' published in 1894."