The proceedings of the 1972 full board meeting of the International Council of Scientific Unions Abstracting Board (ICSU AB) held in Ustaoset, Norway are contained in this volume. The first part of the Proceedings is a detailed description of the activities of the Board. Activities of ICSU AB Member Unions and Member Countries in all aspects of scientific and technical information are described in the second part. The third part records the most recent developments in the activities of the ICSU AB Member Services (the largest abstracting and indexing services all over the world). The fourth part comprises reports from the most important international organizations active in scientific and technical information. In the fifth part the proceedings of a Round Table on "Education of Scientists in the Use of Information" are recorded. Papers presented at a special session on the indexing of primary journals are given in the sixth part. Finally, the seventh part is an outline of another special session which was devoted to an interchange of views about marketing of secondary information services. (Proceedings of the 1970 and 1971 meetings are ED 046 465 and ED 060 854.) (Author/SJ)