Title: jlook.csu Version: 1 Submitted: Mar 14 1991 Author: Dave Davey Submittor: Dave Davey Description: Journal lookup-program with database [ The database is one of the most interesting parts of this submission. --r$ ] jlook is a tool to assist with Journal name handling in bibliographic applications. It supplements refer and other utilities. Using a library of official full titles and abbreviations used by Chemical Abstracts, Index Medicus and the World List of Scientific Periodicals, jlook can interconvert these forms, or generate one of them from reasonable abbreviations. The library may contain recognised variants of titles, or local preferred abbreviations. Used with journal names as command arguments, jlook returns the full title (or abbreviation selected by a switch). Used as a filter, jlook converts input lines starting with %J to the corresponding full title or selected abbreviation. Titles which cannot be recognised are passed through unchanged, but diagnostic output may be obtained. jlook uses a simple index file to speed searches. The program starts marginally faster if the index file exists and is up-to-date, but will generate the index itself otherwise. The available library gives fair coverage of the biomedical literature (about 2000 journals). It compiles and runs on (at least) Version 7 and BSD 4.3 systems.