Educational Information Centers are defined as those encompassing a broad range of search, retrieval, and dissemination activities aimed at providing both increased and more effective communication of results of research and development in the educational field to local educational decision makers and practitioners. Evaluation issues are…

The symposium was arranged for the purpose of collecting, discussing and selecting ideas and experience to assist information services and their users in ensuring a more effective transfer and utilization of the flow of information. The report presents the rationale of the program, the opening address and the introductory address and digested…

A study intended to provide the Defense Documentation Center (DDC) with a five-year plan for the development of improved and new microfiche products, services, and production capabilities is summarized in this report. In addition, the major findings, conclusions, and recommendations developed during the study are noted. The results of the research…

A program is presented for a National Information System for Physics based on a computerized American Institute of Physics (AIP) Information Service which is designed to augment the element of selectivity of the present information system for user interests. It is proposed that the system be developed in discreet stages, each adding to the…

An evaluation of the Ames Laboratory Selective Dissemination of Information - Computer System based on 40 production runs from February 1965 through February 1966 was made by 31 scientist users. Users' comments about the system were correlated with results of a statistical study for the period. It was shown that users were more satisfied with the…

In this sixth report, the Science Council proposes a national policy for scientific and technical information dissemination with the aim of ensuring the provision of information and information services relevant to the present and future needs of the generators, processors, disseminators and users of information in Canada. The basic principle in…

The remaining volumes of the final report (4-8) all contain research memoranda written in the form of essays by research staff and theorists with expertise. The essays deal with operational strategies and philosophical and theoretical considerations of the dissemination and utilization of knowledge. Volume four includes six research memoranda.…

Operating in a pilot region, Project Communicate established a comprehensive educational information system to support the adoption of innovative instructional practices in classrooms. It provided field consultants, individualized information service and information processing units in the state education agency (SEA). It provided for two major…

Medical information and expertise are concentrated in large population centers. This experimental program devised means of distributing these needed health care resources to rural and semi-rural areas. (MP)

Data on information flow in psychology reveal a lengthy series of disseminations to various audiences. The reported data furnish an empirical base for Ziman's consensual model of science and illuminate difficulties which have arisen in the design and implementation of information systems. (17 references) (Author/SJ)

The partial findings of a recent survey is recorded in this paper. It is concerned with the identification and analysis of the essential elements of the framework within which special libraries work. (9 references) (Author/NH)

Describes a course designed to acquaint medical personnel with information systems. (HS)

High school courses are explained to and evaluated by students through an arrangement of systematic informative components displayed in three-minute multimedia presentations. (MF)

Identifies the role and mechanism of information transfer in the social sciences, and surveys selected, significant institutions and organizations (mostly international), which promote such transfer. (RAA)