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Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information --

Two Volumes

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Size: 1662 pages, 6x9

Publication Year:1959

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Sponsors of the Conference: National Science Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, American Documentation Institute, National Research Council
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The launch of Sputnik caused a flurry of governmental activity in science information. The 1958 International Conference on Scientific Information (ICSI) was held in Washington from Nov.16-21 1958 and sponsored by NSF, NAS, and American Documentation Institute, the predecessor to ...
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Front Matter	i-xxiv
Opening Session Address	1-8	(skim)
Area 1: Literature and Reference Needs of Scientists: Knowledge now available and methods of ascertaining requirements	9-12	(skim)
Proposed Scope of Area 1	13-18	(skim)
Study on the Use of Scientific Literature and Reference Services by Scandinavian Scientists and Engineers Engaged in Research Development	19-76	(skim)
The Transmission of Scientific Information	77-96	(skim)
An Operations Research Study of the Dissemination of Scientific Information	97-130	(skim)
Information and Literature Use in a Research and Development Organization	131-162	(skim)
Methods by which Research Workers Find Information	163-180	(skim)
Determining Requirements for Atomic Energy Information from Reference Questions	181-188	(skim)
Systematically Ascertaining Requirements of Scientists for Information	189-194	(skim)
How Scientists Actually Learn of Work Important to Them	195-198	(skim)
Planned and Unplanned Scientific Information	199-244	(skim)
The Use of Technical Literature by Industrial Technologists	245-266	(skim)
Requirements of Forest Scientists for Literature and Reference Services	267-276	(skim)
The Information-Gathering Habits of American Medical Scientists	277-286	(skim)
Use of Scientific Periodicals	287-300	(skim)
Summary of Discussion	301-312	(skim)
Area 2: The Function and Effectiveness of Abstracting and Indexing Services	313-316	(skim)
Proposed Scope of Area 2	317-320	(skim)
An Evaluation of Abstracting Journals and Indexes	321-350	(skim)
Analytical Study of a Method for Literature Search in Abstracting Journals	351-376	(skim)
The Relation Between Completeness and Effectiveness of a Subject Catalogue	377-380	(skim)
Cost Analysis of Bibliographies or Bibliographic Services	381-392	(skim)
The Efficiency of Metallurgical Services	393-406	(skim)
Subject Slanting in Scientific Abstracting Publications	407-428	(skim)
The Importance of Peripheral Publications in the Documentation of Biology	429-434	(skim)
Current Medical Literature: A Quantitative Survey of Articles and Journals	435-448	(skim)
A Combined Indexing-Abstracting System	449-460	(skim)
A Unified Index to Science	461-474	(skim)
Lost Information: Unpublished Conference Papers	475-480	(skim)
International Cooperation in Physics Abstracting	481-490	(skim)
International Cooperative Abstracting on Building: An Appraisal	491-496	(skim)
Cooperation and Coordination in Abstracting and Documentation	497-510	(skim)
On the Functioning of the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the USSR Academy of Sciences	511-522	(skim)
Summary of Discussion	523-536	(skim)
Area 3: Effectiveness of Monographs, Compendia, and Specialized Centers: Present trends and new and proposed techniques and types of services	537-540	(skim)
Proposed Scope of Area 3	541-544	(skim)
Review Literature and the Chemist	545-570	(skim)
The Place of Analytical and Critical Reviews in Any Growing Biological Science and the Service They May Render to Research	571-588	(skim)
Recent Trends in Scientific Documentation in South Asia: Problems of Speed and Coverage	589-604	(skim)
Scientific Documentation in France	605-612	(skim)
Scientific, Technical, and Economic Information in a Research Organization	613-648	(skim)
Summary of Discussion	649-660	(skim)
Area 4: Organization of Information for Storage and Search: Comparative characteristics of existing systems	661-664	(skim)
Proposed Scope of Area 4	665-670	(skim)
Conventional and Inverted Grouping of Codes for Chemical Data	671-686	(skim)
The Evaluation of Systems Used in Retrieval Systems on Large Electronic Computers	687-698	(skim)
Experience in Developing Information Retrieval Systems	699-710	(skim)
Printing Chemical Structures Electronically: Encoded Compounds Searched Generically with IBM-702	711-730	(skim)
Evolution of Document Control in a Materials Deterioration Information Center	731-762	(skim)
Retrieval Questions from the Use of Linde's Indexing and Retrieval System	763-770	(skim)
Classification with Peek-a-boo for Indexing Documents on Aerodynamics: An Experiment in Retrieval	771-802	(skim)
Summary of Discussion	803-812	(skim)
Area 5: Organization of Information for Storage and Retrospective Search: Intellectual problems and equipment considerations in the design of new systems	813-816	(skim)
Proposed Scope of Area 5	817-822	(skim)
The Basic Types of Information Tasks and Some Methods of Their Solution	823-854	(skim)
Subject Analysis for Information Retrieval	855-866	(skim)
The Construction of a Faceted Classification for a Special Subject	867-888	(skim)
On the Coding of Geometrical Shapes and Other Representations, with Reference to Archaeological Documents	889-902	(skim)
Subject-Word Letter Frequencies with Applications to Superimposed Coding	903-916	(skim)
The Analogy between Mechanical Translation and Library Retrieval	917-936	(skim)
Linguistic Transformations for Information Retrieval	937-950	(skim)
Linguistic and Machine Methods for Compiling and Updating the Harvard Automatic Dictionary	951-974	(skim)
The Feasability of Machine Searching of English Texts	975-996	(skim)
Semantic Matrices	997-1026	(skim)
Interlingual Communication in the Sciences	1027-1046	(skim)
An Overall Concept of Scientific Documentation Systems and Their Design	1047-1070	(skim)
The Possibilities of Far-Reaching Mechanization of Novelty Search of the Patent Literature	1071-1096	(skim)
Descriptive Documentation	1097-1116	(skim)
Variable Scope Search System: VS8	1117-1142	(skim)
The Haystaq System: Past, Present, and Future	1143-1180	(skim)
A Proposed Information Handling System for a Large Research Organization	1181-1202	(skim)
Information Handling in a Large Information System	1203-1220	(skim)
Tabledex: A New Coordinate Indexing Method for Bound Book Form Bibliographies	1221-1244	(skim)
The Comac: An Efficient Punched Card Collating System for the Storage and Retrieval of Information	1245-1254	(skim)
Summary of Discussion	1255-1268	(skim)
Area 6: Organization of Information for Storage and Retrospective Search: Possibility for a general theory	1269-1272	(skim)
Proposed Scope of Area 6	1273-1274	(skim)
The Structure of Information Retrieval Systems	1275-1290	(skim)
The Descriptive Continuum: A	1291-1312	(skim)
Algebraic Representation of Storage and Retrieval Languages	1313-1326	(skim)
A Mathematical Theory of Language Symbols in Retrieval	1327-1364	(skim)
Abstract Theory of Retrieval Coding	1365-1382	(skim)
Maze Structure and Information Retrieval	1383-1394	(skim)
Summary of Discussion	1395-1410	(skim)
Area 7: Responsibilities of Government, Professional Societies, Universities	1411-1414	(skim)
Proposed Scope of Area 7	1415-1416	(skim)
Responsibilities for Scientific Information in Biology: Proposal for Financing a Comprehensive System	1417-1428	(skim)
Responsibility for the Development of Scientific Information as a National Resource	1429-1434	(skim)
Differences in International Arrangements for Financial Support of Information Services	1435-1440	(skim)
Training for Activity in Scientific Documentation Work	1441-1488	(skim)
Training the Scientific Information Officer	1489-1494	(skim)
Training for Scientific Information Work in Great Britain	1495-1502	(skim)
The ICSU Abstracting Board: The Story of a Venture in International Cooperation	1503-1516	(skim)
Creation of an International Center of Scientific Information	1517-1522	(skim)
An International Institute for Scientific Information	1523-1534	(skim)
Summary of Discussion	1535-1548	(skim)
Closing Session	1549-1562	(skim)
Financial Support	1563-1564	(skim)
Exhibitors	1565-1566	(skim)
Roster of Registrants	1567-1606	(skim)
Index	1607-1638	(skim)

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The launch of Sputnik caused a flurry of governmental activity in science information. The 1958 International Conference on Scientific Information (ICSI) was held in Washington from Nov.16-21 1958 and sponsored by NSF, NAS, and American Documentation Institute, the predecessor to the American Society for Information Science. In 1959, 20,000 copies of the two volume proceedings were published by NAS and included 75 papers (1600 pages) by dozens of pioneers from seven areas such as:

Literature and reference needs of scientists
Function and effectiveness of A & I services
Effectiveness of Monographs, Compendia, and Specialized Centers
Organization of information for storage and search: comparative characteristics of existing systems
Organization of information for storage and retrospective search: intellectual problems and equipment considerations
Organization of information for storage and retrospective search: possibility for a general theory
Responsibilities of Government, Societies, Universities, and industry for improved information services and research.

It is now an out of print classic in the field of science information studies.

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