摘要：During the last six months we have tried to rationalize our coverage of Slavic medical literature. For a long time we followed the policy of including almost everything received at the Library, and this had led us to the point where for a while 17% of the material going into the Current List emanated from the East European area. A good deal of this material is important, but we felt that 17% of the total was too great a degree of coverage, and tended to overbalance the whole publication. And so, after getting advice from all sides, we have gradually cut back our coverage of the Slavic area until now it represents about 10% of the total, and we will maintain it at this level. In cutting back, we have tried in all cases to eliminate the least consequential journals, such as news-sheets for midwives, general science bulletins, and the like. That our coverage is still extensive is indicated by the fact that we are continuing to include 54 journals from the U.S.S.R. alone.
