This list includes all serials, printed and processed, received by the Library of the United States Department of Agriculture, on a current basis, as of July 1, 1957. Only dailies or administrative use are omitted. A serial is defined as a publication that is issued either regularly or irregularly over an unspecified period of time. For the purposes of this list, a serial was considered current if it had been received in the Library at any time since January 1954, unless it was known to have ceased.

A listing of periodicals, serials, and continuation publications subscribed to by four leading American educational institutions, arranged in thirty-one classified subjects, elaborately indexed and provided with cross-references.