wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) (03/13/91)
From: Will Martin <wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL> I'm looking for periodical indices that include defense-related magazines like Jane's Defense Weekly, Armed Forces Journal, and the like. I was just at the local public library, which gets Jane's Defense Weekly, and checked the "Contents" page in each December '90 and Jan '91 issue, but found no listing of an index for the 1990 issues. The librarian didn't know if JDW put out an index, and said he didn't think JDW was included in any other independent periodical index. I was on my lunch break and didn't have time to look thru the whole year's stack of JDW. Can anyone tell me if JDW prints an index? Maybe they operate on a non-calendar year basis and the index is in July or something... Is JDW included in any periodical index, either paper or on-line? If so, does that index also include other speciality defense publications? And, as a special favor, if anyone out there has easy access to such an index, especially an on-line index, and can run a search, I'm looking for articles on the Advanced Combat Rifle (acronym ACR) development competition being run by the US Army. (Here I work for the Army and can't get this sort of thing in-house! Our library facilities are primitive...:-() There's been some discussion on this in the "firearms" region of the net, and I have what was printed in the Jane's Infantry Weapons annual, but I'm looking for details and news items about the competition, especially test results, what participants dropped out or flunked, changes in the test rifles, etc. Any pointers to articles dealing in any way with the ACR program will be appreciated. I looked through an incomplete stack of the past few years of Armed Forces Journal a while back and could find no contents-page references to the ACR program; as I recall, there seemed to be no yearly index printed in AFJ either. I wonder why... Regards, Will wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil PS- I wonder: there are network-based servers that let you look up such info as the name associated with an amateur radio callsign, and I believe some university libraries have on-line book catalogs accessible from the net. Does any institution have an on-line periodical index that can be accessed from the net, by anonymous login or equivalent, or by a list-server fielding e-mailed inquiies? WM