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This article presents the results of a study intended to establish baseline information and a database relative to counselors' receipt of third party payments. This database provides information against which to measure the success of future efforts to gain recognition and benefits for counselors with insurance agencies and other third party…

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the important information types of the MISOE census data systems (MISOE-CDS)

Creation of a quarterly keyword index to campus grant projects is the chief investigator's name as the key to a section of project summaries. A third section is also included, listing the summaries under the name of the sponsoring department. (Author)

An experimental SDI service based on the Index Chemicus Registry System (ICRS) machine-readable data base is evaluated. (10 references) (Author)

The Ad Hoc Discussion Group on Serials formed on June 26, 1973, is attempting to foster cooperation and coordination in the generation and maintenance of machine-readable union files of serials. (Author/RS)

Cost data were collected from eighteen computer-based systems in the U.S.A. and Europe. Analysis of the data shows costs affected more significantly by system management, salary variations, and productivity of staff, than by technical factors such as depth of indexing, data preparation methods, or computer programming. (4 references) (Author/SJ)

The main purpose of this paper is to seek classes of design implications in data-base oriented languages. Its scope is not limited to library automation, but extends to the problem of scientific and business data-bases. (14 references) (Authors)

Described is the file organization and design of an on-line catalog suitable for automation of one million books. A method of virtual hash addressing allows rapid search of the indexes to the catalog file. Storage of textual material in a compressed form allows considerable reduction in storage costs. (14 references) (Author/SJ)

The operations of the National Standard Reference Data System, National Bureau of Standards, are described as an example of private/public organization cooperation. (5 references) (SM)

A program is described which identifies functional group interconversion reactions, hydrogenations, and dehydrogenations in a data base containing structures encoded as Wiswesser Line Notations. Production of the data base is briefly described. (17 references) (Authors)

SPIN coverage is abnormally low, only 70 journals, versus the coverage of information services in other fields. Every journal listed by SPIN is selectively covered by CAS, resulting in a 76 percent overlap. (3 references) (Author/SJ)

A review of the data which is available for research-or rather the lack of data-and a discussion of the sometimes whimsical substitutes for hard facts that are used in making decisions, followed by the proposal of a unified data-collecting umbrella organization to serve the total educational community. (Author)