About the SA / BBS

Speleological Abstracts (SA/BBS) is an annual review of the world´s speleological literature. About 4000 titles are included every year, most of them with a short abstract in English, French or in another non-cyrillic International Union of Speleology language (UIS).

The reviewed titles are numbered in increasing order and are classified by subject using 8 chapters headings and numerous sub-headings. The titles in each sub-heading are listed in alphabetical author order.

Classification by subject:

1. Karstology and Geospeleology
2. Regional speleology
3. Biospeleology
4. Anthropospeleology
5. Palaeontospeleology
6. Applied speleology
7. Technical speleology
8. Documentary speleology

Titles which have a geographical connection are listed in chap. 2 (Regional Speleology). Chap. 1 and 3 to 8 include the titles without any geographical connection and/or with specialized contents, e. g. biospeleology, technical speleology etc.

In order to facilitate your bibliographical researches, every issue of SA/BBS includes the following indexes:

An alphabetical index by authors:
It allows you to find the titles published by a given author.

A geographical index:
It allows you to find quickly a given country; you can also have direct access to chap. 2 and see where you are with the aid of the headlines.

A lot of cross indexes:
At the end of every sub-chapter. They allow you to find all the other titles concerning a given matter or a given country (nation) placed in a different sub-chapter. In order to limit your bibliographical research, you may narrow the search in the cross index to the title numbers which correspond to a given chapter.

A list of the reviewed publications and periodicals:
You have found titles which are of interest to you and you wish to know them in greater detail : consult your nearest speleological library.

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CH - 1614 Granges - Switzerland
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