A study of cover to cover English translations of Russian scientific and technical journals

Abstract

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">The growing interest in the Russian scientific literature, the low percentage of the language knowing scientists and the high cost of translation of individual papers as contributing factors to the cover to cover translation programmes have been discussed. The peculiarities observed in the title page, collation, frequency, subscription price, table of contents, time lag in publication and the editorial arrangements of the translated journal vis-a-vis the original have been stated. The role of organizations associated with translation programmes i. e. sponsoring agencies, professional translators and publishers, has been described. A classified list of 162 translated journals, subject index to the list and publishers addresses are given in the appendices.</span>