"Rent or buy?" is a question people ask about everything from housing to textbooks. It is also a question universities must consider when it comes to high-performance computing (HPC). With the advent of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Windows HPC Server, Rackspace's OpenStack, and other cloud-based services, researchers now have…

The results of the efforts of the National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services (NFSAIS) Bibliographic Citation Committee (BCC) Working Group on Data Element Definition are reported. The report contains a recommended uniform approach to the handling of bibliographic data elements. The approach is an amalgam of current practices…

Describes the use of word processors for catalog card production, bulletin production, printouts of technical service data, and specialized bibliography printouts in the Energy Economics Group of Arthur D. Little, Inc. (FM)

Since 1965 DSIS (Defense Scientific Information Service) has reproduced copies of microfiche documents received from outside sources for its customers. In 1970, in accordance with long-range plans to use microfiche as the back-up to an automated information retrieval system as a quick and inexpensive way of supplying reports identified by a…

The administrative activity, including organization, staff, budget and external contacts, and the technical progress of IPS development, experimental service, workshops, documentation and related activities of the Center for Information Services (at the University of California, Los Angeles) are reported upon in this document. Pages 9 and 10 may…

By the end of 1976, the Korea Scientific and Technological Information Center, (KORSTIC) will be subscribing to 5,000 titles of current journals, be able to process 300,000 items of information and provide 100,000 cases of reprography service annually. By 1976, KORSTIC's services will be computerized. (Author/NH)

The only paper printed in full in this digest is the Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture given by Dr. Burton W. Adkinson entitled: "After Organization X - What Next?" Dr. Adkinson reviews a national plan for abstracting and indexing services proposed by Robert Heller and Associates in the early sixties, in the light of the current requirements…

This first volume of a proposed twelve volume series of surveys on library automation is based on - besides information gathered by the survey - the results of a literature search to locate any recently published information concerning the reported activities. These are cited below their respective entries to provide additional information about…

Analysis of the distribution of relevant answers to 41 search profiles among the 80 subject sections of Chemical Abstracts" revealed that the average profile requires 10 CA-subject sections for adequate coverage. The average printing expense could be reduced 25 percent by searching the individual profiles in the appropriate subject sections. (5…

The purpose of the survey was: (1) to evaluate existing agricultural information services and (2) to propose possible frameworks for an improved world-wide agricultural information service. The principal statistical results of the survey are summarized in the following figures which are based on data collected in nearly all instances for the year…

When choosing a college, the student must (1) know his own strengths, limitations, resources, and interests, (2) be able to find a college compatible with his various needs and wishes, and (3) know how to compare the likely ones. Since all three problems are difficult to solve, many poor choices are made by both the students and the colleges. To…

WISE-ONE, an information retrieval system, was designed to facilitate searches of the documents cataloged by the ERIC centers and distributed as ERIC RESUMAST master files. WISE-ONE is written to search for documents cataloged under any of the three indices (descriptors, identifiers, and author name), called search keys, and will yield the ERIC…

As the scholarly record has grown, so have bibliographic control instruments, some of which are in machine readable form. The expense of setting up an organization for access to the machine readable data bases seems beyond the budgets of most institutions. The objective is to establish a dependable service organization to make machine readable…

The article presents a brief, explanatory overview of the history and basic principles of teleprocessing and its application for health education. More technical information is provided on the related topics of data transmission and error checking schemes. (CB)

Broad coverage is essential to the effectiveness of information services. This paper criticizes the misleading claims made regarding computer-based systems in this context. It describes the Scientific Documentation Centre's services, the basis on which its resources are allocated, and the criteria for selection of operating techniques and…