Translations: Strategies for Finding Translations

• CAS Source Index - search by title or abbreviations
• Google Translate - use this or another program to translate the document. Or translate the title, then search in database to see if article has been reprinted in another journal.
• Dates - Articles may not have been translated until decades later. So an article published in 1950 may not have been translated until 1970.
• Transliterations - look under all variation of the title. Doklady Akademiia Nauk SSSR may be Akademiia Nauk SSSR Doklady in another. For Chinese transliteration use both the Wade-Giles and the Pinyin system. That means for Acta Zoologica Sinica, search under both Tung Wu Hsueh Pao and under Dongwu Xuebao.
• Some of these tools are online, but most are in print.

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Resources will be listed in order by format. Many are not online and will need to be consulted in the library.

Journal Articles

• CAS Source Index - search by title or abbreviation
• Journals in Translation- 1950 - 1991
  Uris Library Oversize, Z 6514 .T7 T75 +
  Engineering Librarian's Office
   
• Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI): 1907- 1994
  Math Library Reference, QD1 .C292
  Engineering Librarian's Office
   
• Consolidated Index of Translations Into English, Part I, 1953-1966
• Conslidated Index of Translations Into English, Part II, 1967-1984

Patents

• SciFinder-n
• Google Patents

Technical Reports

• NASA Technical Report Server
  NTIS, National Technical Information Service, technical reports
• Technical Translations, 1959-1967, Library Annex  Z7403 .T78
• Transdex: Bibliography and Index to the US Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) translations, 1970-1996 Olin Library Reference, Z1223.Z9 C35, Soviet Union, Olin Library, Z2491 .S736 +, China & Asia exclusive of Near East, Kroch Library Asia Oversize, DS701 .U5861 +, East Europe, Library Annex, Z2483 .E13 +
• World Index of Scientific Translations, 1967-1977 Library Annex, Z7403 .W89
• Translations register-index, 1976-1986, Mann Library Z7401 .T77