Documentation, Indexing, and Retrieval of Scientific Information

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Page 25 - not in any way interfered with the Foundation's assessment of national needs and its support of those scientific areas needing particular assistance. In the field of scientific information, in addition to being authorized and directed to foster the interchange of scientific information among scientists in the United States and foreign countries by section
Page 144 - shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word * * *
Page 144 - be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to acquire and preserve in his Department all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence." Collection of publications began immediately and in the past century the Library has acquired on a worldwide basis significant publications needed for agricultural research and Abstracting services:
Page 25 - Foundation, through a Science Information Service, shall: "(1) provide, or arrange for the provision of, indexing, abstracting, translating, and other services leading to a more effective dissemination of scientific information, and (2) undertake programs to develop new or improved methods, including mechanized systems, for making scientific information available.
Page 77 - stimulation and protection of the Government's research program, the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights, of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, filed a report in the Senate on March 16,1960, in which it was stated
Page 5 - The act also provided that the National Science Foundation shall establish a Science Information Council, including, ex officio, the Librarian of Congress, the Director of the National Library of Medicine, the Director of the Department of Agriculture Library, and the head of the Science Information Service to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the head of the Science Information Service.
Page 174 - An External Index to a Computer Store of Items and Transactions as Illustrated by Project ECHO," (AFOSR TN 60-8), a report prepared for the Directorate of Mathematical Sciences, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, under Contract No. AF 49(638)-91, December 1959. EI DU PONT DE
Page 168 - opportunity to enclose a copy of my report of the "Soviet Science Information Services and one on "Let's Set the Record Straight" which appeared in the January 11 issue of Chemical and Engineering News, which may be of interest to you. If I can be of further assistance at any time, please do not hesitate to call on
Page 75 - A research and development unit should be established in the Patent Office * * *. The National Bureau of Standards and the Patent Office should undertake a joint program to stimulate and develop * * * techniques specifically adapted to the Patent Office operations

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