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Proposed Scope of Area 2
Pages 317-320

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From page 317...
... The steady and relatively unorganized growth of primary publications in recent years has greatly increased the scope and complexity of the storage and retrieval problem. With reference to secondary publications, abstracts, indexes, bibliographies, and so forth, some scientists look upon these primarily as guicles to current publication; for other scientists, however, they are primarily storage and retrieval devices.
From page 318...
... The ICSU cooperative program encourages the use of author abstracts. Every effort is made to achieve promptness by making special arrangements with scientific journals to furnish advance proofs of articles.
From page 319...
... In comparison with No. 5, what are the advantages and disadvantages in terms of the scientific effort involved in a cooperative program using author abstracts along the lines of the ICSU Abstracting Board experiments?


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