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Abstracts are included for 1975-1985. RIO subscribers receive a semiannual perfect-bound installment in November that includes indexing through the first half of that year. Each summer subscribers are sent a hardbound cumulation of the past year's listings in a handsome casebound volume. It covers multi-author books that are primarily scholarly in nature, including Festschriften, conference proceedings, and congresses. The 1999 edition will be the final one as a stand-alone index in print.