The Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences was founded in 1969. Its founding was stimulated by the rapid development and growing importance of the social sciences in the Soviet Union and throughout the world. The Institute has been assigned to be the Soviet center of an integrated scientific…

The investigation and use of machine translation as an adjunct to human translation at the Soviet Union's All-Union Translation Center, a centralized scientific and technical translation facility, is examined. The issues of error correction, the variety of translation types needed, and special lexical considerations are discussed. (MSE)

These seven papers on library management and networks focus on: (1) computerized access to archival and library materials, describing the methodological problems associated with a pilot project in the German Democratic Republic, as well as the efficiency of data bank systems; (2) present and future development of libraries and information centers…