Near-Death Experiences:
Index to the Periodical Literature through 2001

The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) is pleased to announce the release of the new expanded version of Near-Death Experiences: Index to the Periodical Literature through 2001. This updated version is an invaluable tool for all NDE researchers as well as others interested in an in-depth investigation of near-death experiences (NDEs).

NDE researchers were thrilled when the Near-Death Experiences Research Bibliography came out two years ago. The CD-ROM indexed every Anabiosis/Journal of Near-Death Studies (JNDS) article through 2001 by about 135 NDE-related topics. As useful as it was, the new version, Near-Death Experiences: Index to the Periodical Literature through 2001, is a resource for NDE researchers to nearly die for. It covers not only JNDS articles but every article published in the first 25 years of near-death studies, a total of over 800 articles: 703 scholarly (mostly refereed journal articles) and 123 non-scholarly (popular magazines, newspapers, etc.).

With this invaluable tool, researchers can find virtually every article addressing a particular NDE-related topic—or combination of topics. Through article abstracts that appear for over 98% of articles that originally included abstracts, researchers are further helped to select just those articles that are relevant to their own areas of inquiry.

Reprints:

Researchers who do have access to free reprints—such as higher education faculty—simply print their custom list of citations and take it to their inter-library loan service for fulfillment. Those who don’t have such access can purchase one reprint of each article from the IANDS office by generating a custom order form from the CD-ROM. Reprints cost 20 cents per page plus $4 shipping and handling for the first article and 50 cents for each additional article. In either case, researchers can feel confident they have conducted a very thorough review of the available NDE literature through 2001.

This research tool is the product of a collaborative effort between the University of North Texas (UNT), located just north of Dallas and Fort Worth, and the International Association for Near-Death Studies. It is the hope of the UNT research team to find the funding to update the CD in 2006 and every five years thereafter. Anyone wishing to donate to this cause, please contact Dr. Jan Holden at 940-565-2919.