The report very briefly summarizes the research performed during the contract period March 1, 1964, to February 28, 1971. The emphasis of the research was on the discovery and development of techniques for automatically indexing and classifying documents. The research was limited to statistical techniques rather than semantic or syntactic. A…

The efficiency of scientific information activities depends on the availability of highly skilled and experienced personnel and on the familiarity of all scientists and engineers with the essentials of information science. In 1963, the International Federation for Documentation (FID) appealed to its member countries to promote the establishment of…

Reported are the hearings held on April 29 and 30, 1969 before the General Subcommittee on Education of the U.S. House of Representatives on H.R. 8809, a bill to amend Title IX of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 to provide for the establishment of a national information retrieval system for scientific and technical information. The…

An integral part of the American Psychological Association's (APA) National Information System for Psychology, the Journal Supplement Abstract Service (JSAS) represents an innovative publication service designed to make available information of a type which is not now widely disseminated. JSAS prints and publishes descriptive abstracts and…

Relates the setting-up of the International Social Sciences Information System (MISON), which reflects common social development and ideological processes characteristic of the socialist countries and the growing cooperation between them; and discusses some of its proposed goals and activities. (VT)

Describes documents that gave shape to the scientific information policy of Bulgaria, determined its goal, and indicated the fundamental principles of its strategy and tactics. The National System of Scientific and Technical Information (NSSTI) has established links with other European centers of scientific information. (VT)

Includes national documentation and information activities in Czechoslovakia, structure and aims of national centers, information services, technical means, information users, international cooperation, planned participation in international systems, possibility of mutual interconnection of automated information systems, and preconditions and…

Includes Danish organizational structure, main institutions, services, technical tools, users, existing international cooperation, and planned participation in international systems. (VT)

Covers German literature, research, and data on activities, institutions, services, technical tools, users, existing international cooperation, planned participation in international systems, feasibility of automated information systems, and Euorpean cooperation. (VT)

Includes national centers and main institutions of Finland, services provided and national cooperation, users, existing international cooperations, planned participation in international systems, and feasibility of mutually linked automated information systems. (VT)

Includes a general outline; central and main French institutions; services; technical tools; users; existing international cooperation; planned participation in international systems; feasibility of mutually linked automated information systems; needs, preconditions and obstacles; and priorities and principal fields for cooperation. (VT)

Includes a description of the national center in the German Democratic Republic in 1977 and the main institutions engaged in such activities; services, including cooperation at the national level; existing international cooperation; and planned participation in international systems. (VT)

Includes the Hungarian organization and general background, main institutions, services, technical tools, users, international cooperation, planned participation in international systems, needs and preconditions for European cooperation, and advantages offered by and the priorities in European cooperation. (VT)

These observations about information and documentation in the social sciences in Italy touch on their development, services, technical tools, users, and international cooperation. (VT)

Includes a description of the Netherlands' national center, services provided, technical tools, users, existing international cooperation, planned participation in international systems, feasibility of mutually linked automated information systems, needs and preconditions of European cooperation, and areas for European cooperation. (VT)