Monographic series
Encyclopedia
Monographic series are scholarly and scientific books released in successive volumes, each of which is structured like a separate book or scholarly monograph
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. Publications that are released more often than once a year are known as periodicals. If the volumes can each stand on their own as a separate book, they are called monographs in series, if not they are called book sets.
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catalogs each part of them as an individual book with an individual call number and ISBN and a series note (technically a series added entry for the overall series, which has its ISSN, and usually a call number. As the Library of Congress receives two copies of most scholarly books as copyright
deposits, it normally keeps one by individual call number and one by series call number. Most other libraries do not have that luxury and have to choose.
Medical libraries
almost always keep them together as a series. The biomedical indexing service PubMed
from the National Library of Medicine treat the individual volumes in such a series as if they were volumes in a journal.
A frequent occasion for such a themed volume is a celebration in honor of a person's scholarly work. If done at retirement, it is usually called a Festschrift or celebration volume. If after death, it is usually called a memorial
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Monograph
A monograph is a work of writing upon a single subject, usually by a single author.It is often a scholarly essay or learned treatise, and may be released in the manner of a book or journal article. It is by definition a single document that forms a complete text in itself...
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Semantics
In general books that are released serially (in successive parts) once a year, or less often, are called seriesBook series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher....
. Publications that are released more often than once a year are known as periodicals. If the volumes can each stand on their own as a separate book, they are called monographs in series, if not they are called book sets.
Associations
The connection among books belonging to such a series can be by discipline, focus, approach, type of work, or geographic location. Examples of such series include "Antwerp working papers in linguistics" ; "Early English manuscripts in facsimile" ; Garland reference library; "Canterbury Tales Project" (see The Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at...
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Early English Text Society
The Early English Text Society is an organization to reprint early English texts, especially those only available in manuscript. Most of its volumes are in Middle English and Old English...
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Categorization
Libraries and indexing services handle them in various ways. The Library of CongressLibrary of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
catalogs each part of them as an individual book with an individual call number and ISBN and a series note (technically a series added entry for the overall series, which has its ISSN, and usually a call number. As the Library of Congress receives two copies of most scholarly books as copyright
Copyright
Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
deposits, it normally keeps one by individual call number and one by series call number. Most other libraries do not have that luxury and have to choose.
Medical libraries
Medical library
A health or medical library is designed to assist physicians, health professionals, students, patients, consumers and medical researchers in finding health and scientific information to improve, update, assess or evaluate health care. Medical libraries are typically found in hospitals, medical...
almost always keep them together as a series. The biomedical indexing service PubMed
PubMed
PubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system...
from the National Library of Medicine treat the individual volumes in such a series as if they were volumes in a journal.
Themed Volumes
In many cases each volume in such a series itself contains individual chapters or articles written by different authors, usually on the same general theme. The Library of Congress does not list each such article separately, but PubMed does.A frequent occasion for such a themed volume is a celebration in honor of a person's scholarly work. If done at retirement, it is usually called a Festschrift or celebration volume. If after death, it is usually called a memorial
Memorial
A memorial is an object which serves as a focus for memory of something, usually a person or an event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or art objects such as sculptures, statues or fountains, and even entire parks....
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Selected list of series
- Advances in Experimental Medicine and BiologyAdvances in Experimental Medicine and BiologyAdvances in Experimental Medicine and Biology is a peer-reviewed medical journal.- Indexing :It is indexed in:* Medline* Scopus* EMBASE* BIOSIS* Biological Abstracts* CSA* Biological Sciences and Living Resources * Biological Sciences...
See also
- Serials, periodicals and journalsSerials, periodicals and journalsIn publishing or library science, the term serial is applied to materials "in any medium issued under the same title in a succession of discrete parts, usually numbered and appearing at regular or irregular intervals with no predetermined conclusion."...
- Academic publishingAcademic publishingAcademic publishing describes the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in journal article, book or thesis form. The part of academic written output that is not formally published but merely printed up or posted is often called...