Summarizes the status, organization, and themes of national research programs in information science. National plans from six countries are explored with respect to the planning organizations, content of national research plans, and desirable elements of a strategy for building the new discipline. (SW)

Examines future implications and significant trends in the field of scientific technical information, including (1) decentralized preparation and collection of formalized input bibliographic and/or factual data, (2) centralized world-wide processing of both kinds of data bases, and (3) nationally decentralized output information services, and…

Discussion of the relationship between information and development in Third World countries highlights information systems development in four South Asian nations: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. The impact of microelectronics technology, development theories, multinational corporations, international information agencies, and…

Describes information system being developed by Unesco's General Information Program and Brazilian Institute for Information Science and Technology to overcome lack of timely, relevant data to support national information decision making. Principles and examples of practical applications of the system are presented. Prospects and requirements for…

Presents a performance analysis of Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network's retrospective database search service. Statistics regarding service demand, trends, characteristics of searches, search results, U.S. database usage, service turn-around time, and costs are tabulated to profile the evolution and performance of a…