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The Efficiency of Metallurgical Services
The Efficiency of Metallurgical Services
Pages 393-406
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Sisco said, "If a research job in the USA costs less than $100,000, it is cheaper to do it than to find out if it has been done before and is reported in the literature." (5~. But while we wait for results, which may be available in 1960, of five-year studies, promoted by the ASM in 1955, in the pilot plant at the School of Library Science at Western Reserve University, to determine if machine methods of searching and finding coded metallurgical literature are practical, it wig be not useless to point out the actual situation.
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This imbalance is due also to the lack of a bridge between the researcher and the documentalist. The bridge theoretically is built by the technical documentalist, who in Italy usually is a graduate in engineering, in chemistry, or in the physical or mathematical sciences and who, owing to casual circumstances, is obliged to deal with documentation problems; or he may be a graduate of the faculty of arts who, always for professional reasons, has to deal with technical documentation, which is looked upon as a part of general documentation.
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Naturally, in the case of metallurgical publications it is impossible to avoid the dispersion as, for example, an article on the use of aluminum in the textile industry belongs in a textile journal rather than in a metallurgical magazine, but articles on the science of metals or the technology of metallurgy should be published in journals of metallurgy. Also prompt notice of original articles published could be given by authors or by editors of journals to a central bibliographical association, charged with the collection of such data.
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that some ~ournals (Modern Metals, Chicago; Light Metals, London; AZuminium, Dusseldorf; I iaLt Metal Ace. Chicano: AZZuminio.
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The Referativnyi Zhurnal, which standardizes the abstracting service for all sciences and is clividec3 into separate sections for each of them, has achieved a considerable degree of completeness. Its metallurgical section published 14,957 abstracts in 1956, whereas the most advanced service in the free world (ASM Review of Metallurgical Abstracts)
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The searcher, if the subject is of interest to him, must himself procure the original publication. The informative abstract "summarizes the principal arguments and gives the principal data contained in the original publication." In this case the abstract may substitute for the original article and the searching of the latter can be avoided.
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In the United States, on the other hand, the most important metallurgical abstracting service, that of the American Society for Metals, which publishes its abstracts in the monthly Metals Review and then republishes them in annual volumes of ASM Review of Metal Literature, has adopted the indicative form of abstracting. Furthermore, if we were able to find 10 informative abstracting journals, they would not be too extensive and would be closer to the semiinformative than to the strictly informative type.
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In the field of iron metallurgy there is the Zentralblatt derHutten-und Walzwerke, included in the journal Stahl und Eisen, which is decidedly indicative in character; also numerous other journals devoted to particular fields of metallurgy have, in general, a semi-informative character, tending, however, more to the indicative than to the informative form. If we depart from the difference between indicative and informative abstracts, it is evident that in English-speaking countries there exists a better and more complete bibliographical organization as compared with that in France or in German-speaking countries.
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3. Light Metals Bulletin: Metal Treatment ~ Drop Forging.
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To the first group belong, for example, the decimal system and the ASM-SLA. In this case every article receives a fairly long symbol, formed by letters or by numbers, which identifies individual articles and affords the searcher the possibility of forming a classification which represents a permanent bibliographical consultation source, in which every subject will be kept constantly up to date.
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Other special classification systems are being adopted, like that of the NACE in Corrosion, of the Istituto Internazionale della Saldatura in the Bibliographical Bulletin for Welding, that of the Centre de Documentation Siderurgique in their Circulaires d'informations Techniques and Bulletin Analytique, and those of the Documentation Metallurgique ant! of the Svetsliteratur.
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It must be noted that these two institutions parallel their card services with a continuing conventional service of abstracts presented in the normal form in their periodicals Corrosion ant! Metals Review, as wed as in their respective annual publications.
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by centralizing abstracting services, which could be carried out, for the entire field of metallurgy or for single branches (light metals, welding, etc.) , by institutions which already have adequate installations, with the cooperation within international orbit (initiative of CIDA)
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