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Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ5540259 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP) is a scholarly literature database, established in 1978. It has indexed material pertaining to international conference proceedings titles, locations, and dates. In addition, indexing terms, references, and abstracts contained within the database are searchable items. It appears that ISTP is combined with an index entitled Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP).

Content

The subject coverage is life sciences, natural sciences, and applied sciences in the ISTP, ISSHP, and ISTPB databases. Social sciences, beginning in 1998, are found only in the ISTP and ISSHP databases. The sources are listed as conference proceedings, published in: journals, books, and book series. The above databases are listed within superbases known as: XBIOTECH, XMEDALL, XMEDPROD, XPHARMALL, XPSYCH, XTOXLITALL, XVET.

As of December 2008, there are 7,558,203 database records in the combined databases of ISTPB, ISTP, and ISSHP. These are updated weekly.

Searchable data fields are abstracts, book titles (only as far back as 1998), conferences, document type, index terms, section headings, series, title, and uncontrolled term.

References

External links

Chemical Information Network Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine description of this index.

Editorial summary

“Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Index, Scientific and Technical can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 1998, 2008, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Index, Scientific and Technical.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Index, Scientific and Technical provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5540259. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978, 1998, 2008 and 2011.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings primary sources, Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings archive and Index research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings”?
  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.