The Center played a pioneering role in organizing and disseminating literature and providing information on alcohol-related issues for scholarly and lay audiences.

Abstracting, indexing, and organizing scholarly literature started here, providing valuable content for research as well as a system to disseminate alcohol literature to scholars and laypeople.

The Classified Abstract Archive of the Alcohol Literature (CAAAL) is a collection of approximately 20,000 abstracts, prepared by Center staff from 1939 through 1977, of the scientific and scholarly alcohol literature (journal articles, published and unpublished reports, and monographs).

The publication of CAAAL ceased in 1978. A manual is available for help in subject searching: Keller, M., Efron, V., & Jellinek, E. M. (1965). CAAAL manual: A guide to the use of the Classified Abstract Archive of the Alcohol Literature. New Brunswick, NJ: Publications Division, Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies.

From the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives

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