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After presenting the Latvian national bibliography in general the study focuses on the processing of articles comparing the Repertory of Periodicals, Hungarian National Bibliography with its Latvian counterpart. While an issue of the Latvian bibliography of periodical articles contains the material of all subject fields (including criticism of theatre performances, films and pieces of literature published in periodicals) making the crop of one month available after about three months, the RP of HNB (excluding the material of the 6th class of UDC) appears with much longer delay. (There is a similar difference in the rate of processing books as well.) Latvian articles may be searched in one database into which 110.000 entries are input annually. This amount is about three times as much as the number of entries in the printed version (36.000). This amount is surpassed by the Hungarian databases (10.000 entries in RP HNB, and the entries of the three bibliographies of applied sciences (Hungarian Medical Bibliography, Hungarian Agricultural Bibliography, Technical Articles in Hungarian Periodicals) built on the basis of the bibliographies, and social science databases. However, due to their different processing principles, it would be hard to imagine that they be organised into a united database.

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