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AREA 4 ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION FOR STORAGE AND SEARCH Comparative characteristics of existing systems Page 661 Front Matter (R1-R24) Opening Session Address (1-8) Area 1: Literature and Reference Needs of Scientists: Knowledge now available and methods of ascertaining requirements (9-12) Proposed Scope of Area 1 (13-18) Study on the Use of Scientific Literature and Reference Services by Scandinavian Scientists and Engineers Engaged in Research Development (19-76) The Transmission of Scientific Information (77-96) An Operations Research Study of the Dissemination of Scientific Information (97-130) Information and Literature Use in a Research and Development Organization (131-162) Methods by which Research Workers Find Information (163-180) Determining Requirements for Atomic Energy Information from Reference Questions (181-188) Systematically Ascertaining Requirements of Scientists for Information (189-194) How Scientists Actually Learn of Work Important to Them (195-198) Planned and Unplanned Scientific Information (199-244) The Use of Technical Literature by Industrial Technologists (245-266) Requirements of Forest Scientists for Literature and Reference Services (267-276) The Information-Gathering Habits of American Medical Scientists (277-286) Use of Scientific Periodicals (287-300) Summary of Discussion (301-312) Area 2: The Function and Effectiveness of Abstracting and Indexing Services (313-316) Proposed Scope of Area 2 (317-320) An Evaluation of Abstracting Journals and Indexes (321-350) Analytical Study of a Method for Literature Search in Abstracting Journals (351-376) The Relation Between Completeness and Effectiveness of a Subject Catalogue (377-380) Cost Analysis of Bibliographies or Bibliographic Services (381-392) The Efficiency of Metallurgical Services (393-406) Subject Slanting in Scientific Abstracting Publications (407-428) The Importance of Peripheral Publications in the Documentation of Biology (429-434) Current Medical Literature: A Quantitative Survey of Articles and Journals (435-448) A Combined Indexing-Abstracting System (449-460) A Unified Index to Science (461-474) Lost Information: Unpublished Conference Papers (475-480) International Cooperation in Physics Abstracting (481-490) International Cooperative Abstracting on Building: An Appraisal (491-496) Cooperation and Coordination in Abstracting and Documentation (497-510) On the Functioning of the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the USSR Academy of Sciences (511-522) Summary of Discussion (523-536) Area 3: Effectiveness of Monographs, Compendia, and Specialized Centers: Present trends and new and proposed techniques and types of services (537-540) Proposed Scope of Area 3 (541-544) Review Literature and the Chemist (545-570) The Place of Analytical and Critical Reviews in Any Growing Biological Science and the Service They May Render to Research (571-588) Recent Trends in Scientific Documentation in South Asia: Problems of Speed and Coverage (589-604) Scientific Documentation in France (605-612) Scientific, Technical, and Economic Information in a Research Organization (613-648) Summary of Discussion (649-660) Area 4: Organization of Information for Storage and Search: Comparative characteristics of existing systems (661-664) Proposed Scope of Area 4 (665-670) Conventional and Inverted Grouping of Codes for Chemical Data (671-686) The Evaluation of Systems Used in Retrieval Systems on Large Electronic Computers (687-698) Experience in Developing Information Retrieval Systems (699-710) Printing Chemical Structures Electronically: Encoded Compounds Searched Generically with IBM-702 (711-730) Evolution of Document Control in a Materials Deterioration Information Center (731-762) Retrieval Questions from the Use of Linde's Indexing and Retrieval System (763-770) Classification with Peek-a-boo for Indexing Documents on Aerodynamics: An Experiment in Retrieval (771-802) Summary of Discussion (803-812) Area 5: Organization of Information for Storage and Retrospective Search: Intellectual problems and equipment considerations in the design of new systems (813-816) Proposed Scope of Area 5 (817-822) The Basic Types of Information Tasks and Some Methods of Their Solution (823-854) Subject Analysis for Information Retrieval (855-866) The Construction of a Faceted Classification for a Special Subject (867-888) On the Coding of Geometrical Shapes and Other Representations, with Reference to Archaeological Documents (889-902) Subject-Word Letter Frequencies with Applications to Superimposed Coding (903-916) The Analogy between Mechanical Translation and Library Retrieval (917-936) Linguistic Transformations for Information Retrieval (937-950) Linguistic and Machine Methods for Compiling and Updating the Harvard Automatic Dictionary (951-974) The Feasability of Machine Searching of English Texts (975-996) Semantic Matrices (997-1026) Interlingual Communication in the Sciences (1027-1046) An Overall Concept of Scientific Documentation Systems and Their Design (1047-1070) The Possibilities of Far-Reaching Mechanization of Novelty Search of the Patent Literature (1071-1096) Descriptive Documentation (1097-1116) Variable Scope Search System: VS8 (1117-1142) The Haystaq System: Past, Present, and Future (1143-1180) A Proposed Information Handling System for a Large Research Organization (1181-1202) Information Handling in a Large Information System (1203-1220) Tabledex: A New Coordinate Indexing Method for Bound Book Form Bibliographies (1221-1244) The Comac: An Efficient Punched Card Collating System for the Storage and Retrieval of Information (1245-1254) Summary of Discussion (1255-1268) Area 6: Organization of Information for Storage and Retrospective Search: Possibility for a general theory (1269-1272) Proposed Scope of Area 6 (1273-1274) The Structure of Information Retrieval Systems (1275-1290) The Descriptive Continuum: A (1291-1312) Algebraic Representation of Storage and Retrieval Languages (1313-1326) A Mathematical Theory of Language Symbols in Retrieval (1327-1364) Abstract Theory of Retrieval Coding (1365-1382) Maze Structure and Information Retrieval (1383-1394) Summary of Discussion (1395-1410) Area 7: Responsibilities of Government, Professional Societies, Universities (1411-1414) Proposed Scope of Area 7 (1415-1416) Responsibilities for Scientific Information in Biology: Proposal for Financing a Comprehensive System (1417-1428) Responsibility for the Development of Scientific Information as a National Resource (1429-1434) Differences in International Arrangements for Financial Support of Information Services (1435-1440) Training for Activity in Scientific Documentation Work (1441-1488) Training the Scientific Information Officer (1489-1494) Training for Scientific Information Work in Great Britain (1495-1502) The ICSU Abstracting Board: The Story of a Venture in International Cooperation (1503-1516) Creation of an International Center of Scientific Information (1517-1522) An International Institute for Scientific Information (1523-1534) Summary of Discussion (1535-1548) Closing Session (1549-1562) Financial Support (1563-1564) Exhibitors (1565-1566) Roster of Registrants (1567-1606) Index (1607-1638)

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