The community of specialists in scientific information and communication must begin to give more vigorous attention to its expectations for ethical conduct by authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers in the realm of electronic publishing, and to consider how those expectations may differ from the standards applied in a print-based environment.…

Comparisons of "hard" and "soft" science in a user study and a citation study are shown to exhibit a previously unnoticed complementarity. (Author/PF)

Infostructure is defined by using map of information industry to show interrelationships of segments: content services, content packages, facilitation services, information technologies, integrating technologies, communications technologies, communications channels, broadcast channels. Criteria for identifying information businesses are identified…

Reducing the difficulty and expense of acquiring textual material in machine-readable form by use of the IBM MT/ST typewriter and tape converter is discussed with the production of "World Aluminum Abstracts" presented as a typical application. (Author/PF)

The two fundamentally different technologies of cathode ray tube and photon composition are examined in order to analyze their impact on library and information science. (Author/PF)

Examines the quantity and citation rates of Canadian scientific journals. (PF)

Describes the Biblio-Profile, which is a brief state-of-the-art report on a specific topic followed by a comprehensive bibliography. (Author)

Examines ramifications of legislative recognition of concept of fair use in Copyright Act of 1976 and argues that elimination of fair use doctrine, coupled with increase in technological approaches to reporting of secondary use of copyrighted material, will benefit authors, publishers, and librarians alike. Fifteen references are cited. (EJS)

This study comparing four major data aspects--expert judgment as to research performance, bibliometric variables, research output, and organizational size--in 19 pharmaceutical companies reveals a consistent tendency for bibliometric indicators to perform better than expert judgments in predicting research performance. Drug output regression…

Discusses the electronic publishing system called Many Using and Creating Hypermedia (MUCH). The MUCH system supports collaborative authoring; reuse; formatting and printing; management; hypermedia publishing and delivery; and interchange. This article examines electronic publishing environments; the MUCH environment; publishing activities; and…

Examines the evolution of the U.S. standards process and its basis in U.S. political culture; evaluates the system in the light of the many structural changes taking place in the world economy; and suggests that a new balance must be struck between public and private sector roles. (23 references) (LAE)

Presents an evaluative review of selected German literature on (1) the history of information and documentation and (2) on the history of the media (instruments) of scholarly information and communication. Shows that, although the quantity of publication is not large, serious research is being published on a wide range of topics within this area.…

On-line interactive searching of several information bases through several service operators was introduced in an industrial research environment. (Author)

Reports on a survey of the economic elements of special libraries and information centers in American industrial companies, focusing on the assessment of allocated resources, pricing behavior, cost behavior, and accounting practices of such centers. (FM)

Explores how the "Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS)" has developed and what it might become. Topics covered include JASIS versus other American Society for Information Science publications; types of papers in JASIS; authors; competing journals; content scope; electronic enhancements; and how information…