Read-aloud stories are offered to introduce students to three women scientists: Barbara McClintock, Mary Anning, and Jane Goodall. Resources on these, and other women scientists, are listed. (DF)

Knowledge is an integrated whole and we need to avoid the unfortunate lack of communication and interaction that invariably follow compartmentalization. The key to the ideal, a humanistic information scientist, lies in a liberal education of which the humanities are an integral part. (21 references) (MES)

Presents the concept that information relates to value just as the information professional relates to salary, and then describes four approaches to understanding what constitutes value in information: intrinsic quality, the effect of cost, a product of supply and demand, or a function of utility. (CLB)

Because of low salaries and noncompetitive fringe benefits, federal laboratories are having difficulty attracting, retaining and motivating high-caliber scientists and engineers. Outlines several measures to correct these problems and reduce the general rigidity and inertia of the federal personnel system and recommends quick action by Congress to…

Indicates that key management positions in technology-based companies go to nontechnologists because many technologists are incompetent at management tasks. Discusses reasons for and issues related to this trend, suggesting that the United States look to French and Japanese approaches in building a new system of science/engineering management. (JN)

Many talented physicists who fled Europe during the rise of fascist regimes came to the United States to escape various kinds of persecution. The role and accomplishments of these scientists in enriching the science community in the United States are discussed. (JN)

Reports that scientists prefer direct contact with journalists and believe that public information officers play a minor role in disseminating research findings. (FL)

Discusses the successes of the Fourth Biennial Conference on Chemical Education and lists its 400 participants. (MLH)

Describes the background of the Secretary of Defense, Harold Brown. (SL)

Science is described as a social system of which interactive communication is the salient feature. Implications of this view of scientific communication are considered for the planning of innovations in the system. (Author)

This paper focuses on scientists' views of scientific models and their use in authentic practice. Participants were 24 scientists, averaging 25 years research experience, representing four discipline areas. Views of scientific models were assessed through an open-ended questionnaire ("VNOS-Sci") and interviews. The scientists described models…

Scientists and other scholars are experts in their fields and their knowledge and advice should be solicited on issues concerning science, technology, and related social and political decisions. The government should encourage the formation of groups of such people instead of dismantling those that exist. (PS)

This article sets forth some of the newer methods for the rapid dissemination of scientific and technological information among scientists. Presently, it might take six months to one year before an interested scientist sees an article and by this time efforts might have been wasted or duplicated. (4 references) (Author)

Darwin's impact on science is perhaps greater than that of most contemporary and recent scientists. His views on moral values, humbleness, integrated search for truth instead of specialized study, and nature study are in contrast to many typical modern scientists. (PS)