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Secondary Information Services
Pages 423-423

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... For optimum effectiveness, each party must have as full an understanding as possible of the needs and activities of the others, with a well-organized interplay among services catering to various scientific subfields so that the user can be sure of obtaining, with minimum difficulty, as much information as he needs without drowning in a sea of seemingly relevant or closely related undigested references. In the future, as these criteria are met, such secondary information services should grow in importance; for the present, they are relatively little used by the scientific community.


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