ABC-Lit: An Index to Children's Literature Scholarship

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Developments

Feb 05, 2010	Due to a dispute with my previous domain host, I have moved my site to a new host, with a slight change in the URL, to www.abc-lit.org. I will be updating the database as soon as I can. Total Records: 4,082
May 22, 2009	Updated May 22, 2009: Marvels & Tales to v.22(2), 2008; Children's Literature Association Quarterly v.34(2), 2009. Total Records: 4,082
May 21, 2009	Updated May 21, 2009: Journal of Children's Literature to v.35(1), Spring 2009; Children's Literature v.37, 2009. Total Records: 4,031
May 13, 2009	Updated May 13, 2009: Sankofa to v.7, 2008; Added new periodical called Marvels & Tales. Total of 20 periodicals indexed, but Nathaniel Hawthorne special issue has not yet been released. Total Records: 3,893
May 12, 2009	Updated May 12, 2009: Papers to v.18(2), 2009; Lion & the Unicorn to v.33(1), 2009; Journal of Children's Literature to v.34.2, Fall 2008; New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship to v.14(2), 2009. Added a single special issue of La Trobe Library Journal; added a single special issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection; Added new periodical called International Research in Children's Literature; Added new periodical called Journal of Children's Literature Studies up to v.4(3), November 2007. Total of 19 periodicals indexed, but Nathaniel Hawthorne special issue has not yet been released. Total Records: 3,874
May 5, 2009	Updated ALAN Review to v.34(2), 2007; Canadian Children's Literature to v.34.2, Fall 2008; Children's Literature Association Quarterly to v.34(1), 2009; Children's Literature in Education to v.40(2). Total Records: 3,727
Feb. 5, 2009	Updated Feb. 5, 2009: Children's Literature Association Quarterly to v.33.3, 2008; Journal of Children's Literature v.34.2, Fall 2008 Total Records: 3,644
Jun. 5, 2008	Updated Jun. 5, 2008: Horn Book Magazine to v.84(3), May/June 2008; New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship to v.13(2), 2007. Total Records: 3,644
Jun. 4, 2008	Updated Jun. 4, 2008: Journal of Children's Literature to v.34.1, Spring 2008. Total Records: 3,555 10 pages linking to URL according to Google.
Jun. 3, 2008	Updated Jun. 3, 2008: Journal of Children's Literature to v.33.2, 2007; Sankofa to v.6, 2007; Papers to v.17.1, 2007; Children's Literature Association Quarterly to v.33.2, 2008; Children's Literature in Education to v.39.2, 2008; Lion and the Unicorn to v.32.1, 2008; MP: An International Feminist Journal only v.1(6), June 2007. Total Records: 3,539
Jun. 2, 2008	Updated Jun. 2, 2008: Children's Literature : Annual to v.36, 2008; Canadian Children's Literature (CCL) to v.33(2), 2007. Total Records: 3,433
Jun. 5, 2007	Updated Jun. 5, 2007: Children's Literature : Annual to v.35, 2007; Children's Literature in Education to v.38(2) June, 2007; Journal of Children's Literature to v.33(1), Spring 2007; Lion and the Unicorn to v.31(2), 2007; Children's Literature Association Quarterly to v.32(1), 2006; Horn Book Magazine to v.83(3), 2007. Total Records: 3,395
Mar. 16, 2007	Updated Mar. 16, 2007: Horn Book Magazine to v.83(2), March/April 2007. Total Records: 3,346
Mar. 14, 2007	Updated Mar. 14, 2007: Canadian Children's Literature (CCL) to v.32.2 Fall 2006; Horn Book to v.83.1 Jan/Feb 2007; Lion & the Unicorn to v. 31.1, 2007. Total Records: 3,341
Feb. 14, 2007	Updated Feb. 14, 2007: Sankofa: A Journal of African Children's and Young Adult Literature to v.5, 2006. Total Records: 3,323
Feb. 12, 2007	Updated Feb. 12, 2007: Children's Literature Association Quarterly to v.31(4), 2006; Total Records: 3,315
Jan. 16, 2007	Updated Jan. 16, 2007: Children's Literature in Education to v.38(1), 2007; Sankofa: A Journal of African Children's and Young Adult Literature to v.4, 2005. Added the new periodical, Sankofa, to the database. Total Records: 3,305
Jan. 12, 2007	Children's Literature Association Quarterly to v.31(3), 2006; Horn Book Magazine to v.82(6), November/December 2006; Journal of Children's Literature to v.32(2), Fall 2006. Total Records: 3,242
Oct. 3, 2006	Updated Horn Book Magazine to v.82(4), 2006; Lion & the Unicorn to v.30(3), 2006; Total Records: 3,216
Sept. 8, 2006	Updated Horn Book Magazine to v.82(4), 2006 Total Records: 3,195
Sept. 7, 2006	Updated Horn Book Magazine to v.81(6), 2005 Total Records: 3,162
Sept. 6, 2006	Updated Children's Literature Association Quarterly to v.31(2), 2006; Canadian Children's Literature (CCL) v.32(1), Spring 2006; The ALAN Review to v.33(3), Summer 2006; Journal of Children's Literature to v.32(1), Spring 2006; Children's Literature in Education to v.37(3) September, 2006; to Lion and the Unicorn to v.30(2), 2006; New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship to v.12(1), April 2006. Total Records: 3,119
Sept. 5, 2006	Updated Papers to v.16(1), 2006; ALAN Review to v.33(2), 2006; Children's Literature Association Quarterly to v.31(1), 2006; Children's Literature to v.34, 2006; Total records: 3,031
Apr. 6, 2006	Updated Children's Literature Association Quarterly to v.30(4), 2005. Total records: 2,983
Jan. 19, 2006	Updated several periodicals. Total records: 2,965 Hits to main page:
Dec. 7, 2005	Fixed a bug in the search that was making periodicals not appear on a solo periodical search.
Dec. 6, 2005	Did a large update, but still have to do Horn Book update. Added Journal of African American Children's Literature. Total Records: 2,934
Nov. 1, 2005	Made a big change to the search interface. It is now fully boolean using AND, OR, NOT, phrase searching with paratheses, and truncation using the asterisk. 84 pages linking to URL according to Google.
June 9, 2005	Total records: 2,795 Records with abstracts: 341 Hits to main page: 6,153. Continuing to add back citations as well as new ones.
November 20, 2004	Total records: 2,504 Records with abstracts: 341 Hits to main page: 6,153. Continuing to add back citations as well as new ones.
November 10, 2004	Total records: 2,300 Records with abstracts: 341 Hits to main page: 6,043. You'll notice that the years have been expanded back to 1972. This is because I have now included citations for Children's Literature: Annual from volume 1 and Children's Literature in Education from 1975 (no.16). These do not have abstracts or descriptors, but hopefully will be of use. If you would like to contribute by writing abstracts, please contact me. To keep up annually I would have to read about 180 articles per year. Help reading those 180 would be appreciated.
September 8, 2004	Total records: 1,820 Records with abstracts: 341 Hits to main page: 5,403. Looked through all abstracts for typos. Found several and corrected them.
August 2, 2004	Total records: 1,818 Records with abstracts: 341 Hits to main page: 5,165.
July 27, 2004	Total records: 1,810 Records with abstracts: 341 Hits to main page: 5,127. 8 pages linking to URL according to Google.
June 17, 2004	Total records: 1,757 Records with abstracts: 335 Hits to main page: 4,639.
June 11, 2004	Total records: 1,748 Records with abstracts: 335 Hits to main page: 4,604.
June 01, 2004	Total records: 1,748 Records with abstracts: 329
May 24, 2004	Total records: 1,733 Records with abstracts: 329
March 8, 2004	Total records: 1,733 Records with abstracts: 325
January 16, 2004	Total records: 1,692 Records with abstracts: 325
January 5, 2004	Total records: 1,665 Records with abstracts: 314
December 2, 2003	Database moved to new URL -- www.abc-lit.org -- with new php search engine rather than old perl search engine. Old site will be brought down with a forwarding message.
November 6, 2003	Index updated. Total records: 1,660 Records with abstracts: 310
October 31, 2003	Index updated. Total records: 1,645 Records with abstracts: 310
September 16, 2003	Index updated. Total records: 1,639 Records with abstracts: 310
June 5, 2003	Index updated. Total records: 1,609 Records with abstracts: 310
February 24, 2003	Index updated. Total records: 1,533 Records with abstracts: 310
January 29, 2003	Index updated. Total records: 1,519 Records with abstracts: 305
January 18, 2003	Index updated. Total records: 1,504 Records with abstracts: 305
January 13, 2003	Index updated. Total records: 1,499 Records with abstracts: 305
September 25, 2002	Index updated. Total records: 1,423 Records with abstracts: 277
May 29, 2002	Added The ALAN Review starting with v.29(2), 2002 Total records: 1352 Records with abstracts: 277
May 16, 2002	Added the special children's literature issue of Mosaic v.34(2), 2001 to index. Total records: 1,325 Records with abstracts: 277
May 11, 2002	CARL poster session in Asilomar.
May 1, 2002	Index updated. Total records: 1,312 Records with abstracts: 274
April 30, 2002	Index updated. Total records: 1,176 Records with abstracts: 272
June 11, 2001	Index mounted. Total records: 661 Records with abstracts: 181
June 2000	Grant proposal accepted.