Describes plans for a European information network that will link the nations of Europe together in providing easy access to data bases from all parts of the world and in all fields of science and technology. (Author/PF)

Automated generation and scoring of repeatable tests are a practical necessity in self-paced instruction, where the demand for repetitive testing is great. (Author)

Explores the potential for a fully developed energy vocabulary conversion guide. Reports on the analysis and integration of 11 existing vocabularies. (Author/PF)

Reports on the experimental use of MEDLINE at Oakland University in January-April 1974. (PF)

The Mechanized Information Center, a department of The Ohio State University Libraries, offers to the campus community several batch-mode information services from commercially available data bases. The search request interview provides an opportunity for instruction regarding OSU's computer-based literature searches, automated library facilities,…

The system consists of a single program with data bases containing the material to be displayed. Editing, loading, and other support programs were written to transfer the burden of material and maintenance tasks from the user to the computer. (Author/IRT)

Describes the experience accumulated by the United Nations and its agencies during the last decade in the international information system field. Bibliographic, statistical, and resource systems are described, and common features are identified; in addition, a model for strengthening national information capabilities and for sharing information is…

Sixteen queries, performed on the two systems, resulted in 247 unique relevant references from EMCS and 559 from TOXLINE. The overlap varied considerably, from 6 to 50 percent. It is remarkable that TOXLINE, with nine subfiles specially compiled for toxicology, can be supplemented by EMCS, which in the present study delivered 31 percent of all the…

As computers continue to play an increasingly greater role in all segments of society, both government and business must begin to more vigorously attack the human-related problems they create before these problems become entrenched and impossible to rectify. (Author)

An overview is provided for librarians of the types of statistical or numeric data bases offered by Data Resources, Inc., General Electric Information Division, Predicasts, and Interactive Data Corporation. Tables list the types of data or statistical information available from each. (JPF)

SIRC began developing its sport library by building a basic periodical subscription list, indexing the publications, and publishing an index, Sports Articles. The center now has a computerized information storage and retrieval system with more than 20,000 citations including books and articles, and provides a variety of services. (MBR)

A new method for concentrating keywords of a thesaurus, based on a mathematical study of the distribution of characters in a defined natural language. (Author/KP)

This paper discusses vehicles for education and training, tools and techniques for promotion, and details the information requirements of the processors, service managers, searchers, and end users of on-line data bases. (Author/KP)

This article explores the growth, origins, technological development, and current activities of bibliographic data bases, and examines the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science national program relative to these aspects. (Author)

Proposes that the development of document-retrieval systems can benefit from the incorporation of conceptual modeling techniques, specifically classification, aggregation, and generalization. An array model is presented which has been designed especially for document retrieval. (Author/EM)