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Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information -- Two Volumes (1959)

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. "The Comac: An Efficient Punched Card Collating System for the Storage and Retrieval of Information." Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information -- Two Volumes. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1959.

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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)