Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information -- Copyright -- IN MEMORIAM -- CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Contents -- OPENING SESSION ADDRESS -- OPENING SESSION ADDRESS -- AREA 1 LITERATURE AND REFERENCE NEEDS OF SCIENTISTS -- AREA ORGANIZATION -- PROPOSED SCOPE OF AREA 1 -- SUGGESTED WORKING PAPERS -- PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS -- METHODOLOGY -- Study on the Use of Scientific Literature and Reference Services by Scandinavian Scientists and Engineers Engaged in... -- EARLIER STUDIES IN THE FIELD -- I. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE USE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE AND REFERENCE SERVICES AS REVEALED BY STUDIES DIRECTED TO THE SCIENTISTS -- II. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EARLIER STUDIES ON THE USE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE AND REFERENCE SERVICES ARRANGED BY SUBJECT FIELD... -- THE SCANDINAVIAN STUDY -- I. THE STUDY POPULATION (QUESTIONS 1-2) -- II. HOW WELL DO YOU FEEL YOU ARE ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH ADVANCES IN YOUR FIELD? (QUESTION 3) -- III. ESTIMATE THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE TO YOU OF THE FOLLOWING SOURCES OF INFORMATION: (1) LITERATURE AND (2) VERBAL... -- IV. ESTIMATE THE TIME YOU SPEND WEEKLY ON SEARCHING AND READING LITERATURE (QUESTION 5) -- V. HOW MANY SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL JOURNALS AND SERIES DO YOU PERSONALLY SUBSCRIBE TO AND OBTAIN THROUGH MEMBERSHIPS?... -- VI. HOW MANY SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL JOURNALS AND SERIES DO YOU FOLLOW REGULARLY? (QUESTION 6c) -- VII. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS DO YOU USE (A) FREQUENTLY, (B) OCCASIONALLY, (c) SCARCELY EVER?... -- VIII. LIST THE FOREIGN LANGUAGES THAT YOU CAN READ (QUESTION 8) -- IX. DO YOU KEEP A PERSONAL INDEX? (QUESTION 9) -- X. DO YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE REFERENCE AND INFORMATION SERVICES OF A LIBRARY? (QUESTION 10).

XI. WHICH OF THE SERVICES LISTED BELOW HAVE YOU MADE USE OF: (A) FREQUENTLY, (B) SOMETIMES, (C) NEVER? (QUESTION 11) -- XII. IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO AVAIL YOURSELF OF SOME SERVICE LISTED ABOVE WHICH YOU FEEL A GREAT NEED FOR,... -- XIII. HOW MANY PAPERS, RESEARCH REPORTS, AND BOOKS HAVE YOU PUBLISHED DURING THE PAST THREE YEARS AND IN WHICH JOURNALS... -- XIV. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES YOU HAVE HAD WITH YOUR OWN PUBLICATIONS? (QUESTION 14) -- XV. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES YOU HAVE IN OBTAINING REQUIRED INFORMATION AND KEEPING UP WITH ADVANCES (QUESTION 15) -- XVI. CAN YOU DESCRIBE SPECIFIC INSTANCES OF UNDESIRABLE DUPLICATION IN YOUR WORK CAUSED BY THE LACK OF INFORMATION ON... -- XVII. CAN YOU RECOMMEND IMPROVEMENTS WHICH MIGHT MAKE THE LITERATURE AND REFERENCE SERVICES MEET YOUR NEEDS MORE... -- List of suggestions made for the improvement of the state of affairs -- Journals -- Abstract journals and indexes -- Reviews -- Libraries -- Information services -- Instruction in the use of libraries and in subject literatures -- Miscellaneous -- XVIII. HAVE YOU AFTER GRADUATION FELT A NEED TO IMPROVE YOUR SKILL IN THE USE OF LITERATURE? -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX I. ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE CIRCULAR LETTER MAILED TO THE SCIENTISTS IN THE SAMPLE. -- The use of scientific and technical literature and reference services -- APPFNDIX II. ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR RESEARCH WORKERS ON THE USE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION -- The Transmission of Scientific Information: A User's Analysis -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX LIST OF ENQUIRIES IN THE FIELD OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION PROPOSED IN THIS PAPER -- An Operations Research Study of the Dissemination of Scientific Information -- GENERAL DESIGN OF THE RESEARCH -- HOW SCIENTISTS SPEND THEIR TIME -- ANALYSIS -- TIME ALLOCATION.

INTERRELATIONSHIPS -- INTRACOMPANY RELATIONSHIPS -- PLANS FOR ADDITIONAL ANALYSES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- APPENDIX 1 -- APPENDIX 2 DATA COLLECTION INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROJECT 957 -- APPENDIX 3 -- APPENDIX 3A -- APPENDIX 4 THE USE OF THE MULTINOMIAL ASSUMPTION -- APPENDIX 5 SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION STUDY-QUESTIONNAIRE -- Information and Literature Use in a Research and Development Organization -- 1. INTRODUCTORY -- 2. MAIN SURVEY: COMPOSITION OF THE SAMPLE -- 3. ANALYSIS OF INTERVIEW QUESTIONS -- 3.01. QUESTIONNAIRES -- 3.02. QUESTIONS 5, 6: ADEQUACY OF TIME FOR READING AT WORK -- 3.03. QUESTIONS 7-14: EVALUATION OF SOURCES OF INFORMATION -- 3.04. QUESTIONS 15/20: LITERATURE SEARCHING HABITS -- 3.05. QUESTIONS 21, 22: PERSONAL INDEXES -- 3.06. QUESTIONS 23/28: CRITICISMS OF LIBRARY LISTS -- 3.07. QUESTIONS 39, 40: CRITICISMS OF THE LIBRARY SERVICE -- 3.08. QUESTIONS 29/32: PRIVATE PROVISION OF LITERATURE -- 3.09. QUESTIONS 33/36: VALUE OF PERIODICALS ACCORDING TO AGE -- 3.10. QUESTION 38: DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN PERIODICALS, PROPORTIONATE USE -- 3.11. QUESTION 37: VALUE OF PERIODICALS ACCORDING TO LANGUAGE -- 4. ANALYSIS OF READING DIARIES -- 4.01. CONDITIONS OF THE TEST -- 4.02. AMOUNT OF LITERATURE READ, AND WHERE READ -- 4.03. READING OF ABSTRACT JOURNALS -- 4.04. WHERE THE LITERATURE WAS OBTAINED -- 4.05. HOW THE REFERENCE TO IT WAS FOUND -- 4.06. USE MADE OF THE LITERATURE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX I SCORING SCALE FOR QUESTIONNAIRE -- APPENDIX II READING DIARY -- Methods by Which Research Workers Find Information -- 1. SUMMARY OF SERVICES GIVEN BY A.E.R.E. LIBRARY -- 1.1. READING ROOM AND REPORT ROOMS -- 1.2. THE INFORMATION OFFICE -- 1.3. DIVISIONAL LIBRARIES -- 2. CHOICE OF SURVEY METHOD -- 2.1. DIARY METHOD -- 2.2. INTERVIEW METHOD -- 3. THE DIARY CARD INVESTIGATION -- 4. RESULTS OF DIARY CARD SURVEY -- 4.1. OVERALL RESULTS.

4.2. DISCUSSION OF OVERALL RESULTS -- 4.3. BREAKDOWN OF RESULTS FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF DIARIST -- 5. THE INTERVIEW SURVEY -- 6. COMPARISON OF DIARY AND INTERVIEW SURVEYS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX 1 -- APPENDIX 2 NOTES ON USE OF DIARY CARDS -- APPENDIX 3 DISCUSSION OF DIARY CARD LAYOUT -- APPENDIX 4 TOPICS DISCUSSED AT INTERVIEWS -- Determining Requirements for Atomic Energy Information from Reference Questions -- METHOD OF STUDY -- THE NATURE OF THE REFERENCE QUESTIONS -- THE CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE OF THE REFERENCE QUESTIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX I. ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS COOPERATING IN THE COLLECTION OF REFERENCE QUESTIONS -- APPENDIX II. CATEGORIES OF NON-TECHNICAL QUESTIONS COLLECTED -- APPENDIX III. CATEGORIES OF TECHNICAL QUESTIONS COLLECTED -- Systematically Ascertaining Requirements of Scientists for Information -- How Scientists Actually Learn of Work Important to Them -- Planned and Unplanned Scientific Communication -- A SYSTEMIC VIEW -- MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM -- KEEPING SCIENTISTS UP TO DATE -- UNPLANNED MECHANISMS -- CONTENT OF INFORMATION OBTAINED -- INDIVIDUAL ACCIDENT-AGGREGATE REGULARITY? -- FURNISHING ANSWERS TO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS -- SEARCHES OUTSIDE THE LITERATURE -- CONTENT OF INFORMATION SOUGHT -- PERSONS CONSULTED AS SOURCES -- SOME QUESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- DETAILED QUESTIONS ON THE FURNISHINGS OF ANSWERS TO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS -- DETAILED QUESTIONS ON KEEPING SCIENTISTS UP TO DATE -- A. RESEARCH QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE WIDER DISSEMINATION OF SCIENTIFIC NEWS -- B. RESEARCH QUESTIONS CONCERNING REDUCTIONS IN THE TIME AND LABOR OF SURVEYING CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS -- C. RESEARCH QUESTIONS REGARDING SCIENTISTS MOTIVATION TO BE INFORMED -- APPENDIX. INTERVIEW SCHEDULE -- The Use of Technical Literature by Industrial Technologists -- DESIGN OF THE SURVEY -- THE FINDINGS.

1. A GENERAL ACTIVITY FACTOR AMONG TECHNOLOGISTS -- Characteristics of technologists found to be positively intercorrelated -- 2. THE AMOUNT AND NATURE OF TECHNICAL READING -- 3. ABSTRACTS, MEETINGS, AND OTHER INFORMATION SOURCES -- 4. THE ROLE OF THE LITERATURE IN THE TECHNOLOGIST'S WORK -- IMPLICATIONS -- Requirements of Forest Scientists for Literature and Reference Services -- THE PLACE OF LITERATURE IN FOREST RESEARCH -- THE NATURE OF FORESTRY LITERATURE -- CASES IN LITERATURE SURVEY -- FOREST AERIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY -- FOREST INVENTORY -- SPECIFIC GRAVITY AND TREE GROWTH -- THE NATURE OF THE FOREST COMMUNITY -- EXISTING REFERENCE FACILITIES -- AN APPROACH TOWARD A SOLUTION -- The Information-Gathering Habits of American Medical Scientists -- METHOD OF STUDY -- METHODS OF KEEPING ABREAST OF CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS -- SOLVING PROBLEMS AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS -- SOURCES OF IDEAS -- METHODS OR TOOLS FOR LOCATING OR BECOMING AWARE OF SOURCES OF INFORMATION -- TOOLS AND METHODS USED IN LITERATURE SEARCHES -- SIGNIFICANCE OF LITERATURE SEARCHES -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX I CATEGORIES OF PROBLEMS AND QUESTIONS CORRELATED WITH SOURCES OF SOLUTIONS OR ANSWERS -- APPENDIX II SOURCES OF IDEAS FOR CURRENT PROJECT -- APPENDIX III TOOLS OR METHODS USED FOR LOCATING OR BECOMING AWARE OF SOURCES OF INFORMATION -- APPENDIX IV PRIMARY TOOLS OR TECHNIQUES USED IN LITERATURE SEARCHES -- Use of Scientific Periodicals -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX A SCIENCE MUSEUM LIBRARY: LIST OF NON-LOANABLE PERIODICALS -- APPENDIX B SCIENCE MUSEUM LIBRARY: TITLES BORROWED TEN OR MORE TIMES PER DECADE, 1940-1949 -- SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION -- AREA 2 THE FUNCTION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING SERVICES -- AREA ORGANIZATION -- PROPOSED SCOPE OF AREA 2 -- PRINCIPAL TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION -- An Evaluation of Abstracting Journals and Indexes.

LITERATURE SEARCHES AND DATA PRESENTED.