PapersFirst and ProceedingsFirst cover papers from conferences from 1993 onwards. The World Catalogue contains more than 36 million records from libraries around the world and can be used to both find relevant book titles and to check inaccurate book references. See the indexes of two consecutive issues for coverage of the life sciences both pure and applied. Remember to check your keywords against its thesaurus called the Index Guide before searching. Passwords are available from the Help Desk for registered King's readers for the Local Database Network and online services.
Users can book for timetabled demonstrations of some of the abstracting and indexing services.
The Barbour Indexes are separate libraries in microfiche format, consisting of Health and Safety Microfile , Environmental Management Briefing , Hazardous Chemicals Microfile and Food and Safety Microfile . The full text documents on the fiche are found through using the indexes. Abstracting and indexing services list the journals they cover and some cross-reference journal abbreviations to full titles. The World List of Scientific Periodicals still has value because each of the alphabetically listed entries includes its standard abbreviation in italics. Check other library catalogues through the web.