The purpose of the study was to define a world-wide machinery registering the essential characteristics of scientific periodicals and making them available to all interested individuals or organizations. The study is a combined feasibility study and preliminary system design. No attempt was made to identify individual organizations which might…

Heavy emphasis was placed on experiments, and interpretation of experimental results. A set of experiments was designed to yield quantitative information on how the experimental subjects used the full-text-access system, why they used it and how effective it was. A detailed report of work on this topic to date is presented. The in-depth analysis…

In Dallas, a computerized "voice mail" system keeps board members only a telephone call away from the action and allows them to respond to the messages at their own convenience. (TE)

Seven articles on telecommunications are: "Introduction and Overview" (Lunin); "Networks and Distributed Information Services" (Meadow); "Regulatory Development in the United States" (Bernard); "Trends in Technology" (Sherman); "The International Telecommunications Environment" (Davison);…

Assesses the promotion and development of online information retrieval in China. Highlights include opening of the first online retrieval center at China Overseas Building Development Company Limited; establishment and activities of a cooperative network; online retrieval seminars; telecommunication lines and terminal installations; and problems…

Drawn from the insights and experiences of many people, this overview highlights some of the critical issues and trends that will affect networking in the next 5 to 10 years. The trends are presented in five key categories: economics, technology, society, education, and government/legislation. (EJS)

Current awareness services at AT&T Bell Laboratories are described: bulletins announcing over 80,000 externally published items/year; production of four commercial machine-readable databases and camera-ready bulletin copy by Bell Laboratories Publication, Alerting, and Retrieval System (BELLPAR); photocopy service. Improvements in service are…

Describes development of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library's Channel 16, the country's only library television station to produce programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Use of cable television, program administration and budgeting, programming, interactive information and reference services, measuring viewer response, and publicity are…

Two journal-to-journal matrices for psychology in 1950 and 1960 are analyzed in terms of structural equivalence to test following hypotheses: that journals of a discipline function as a status-role relational system; that interdisciplinary journals are distant from journals of a field; that journal networks have a core-periphery structure. (26…

This symposium presents thoughts of OCLC's president and six reactions to news that OCLC has decided to register its database for copyright. Topics covered include copyright and access to information, legal and technical issues, reasoning behind the decision, a threat to sharing, improved communications, and copyright enforcement. References are…

Explores some of the problems that will confront librarians and scholars in a paperless society. Highlights include the technological determinants of information survival, the library's institutional role, the stock of knowledge, electronic publishing and the stock of knowledge, and other issues. Seven references are cited. (EJS)

Four artificial intelligence (AI) concepts that have relevance for information retrieval systems are discussed and applied to area of authority control in automated catalogs--pattern recognition, representation, problem solving, learning. Existing automated authority control systems are analyzed using two other AI concepts, augmentation and…

As a first step toward developing a strategy for a comprehensive external evaluation of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system, this paper contributes by providing an overview of the system's mission, structure, and resources. A brief review of ERIC's historical development and extant literature, the conduct of a key informants…

The University of Maryland, College Park recognized in the 1990s that its institutional data was an asset that needed to be managed. In this Information Age, data must be turned into knowledge quickly and accurately. The University of Maryland implemented a campus data warehouse, and along with it a comprehensive meta data platform for helping…

Paper presents an analysis of information exchange in the world and the development of systems designed to facilitate storage and retrieval of information. It also deals with all aspects of exchanging experience in adult education. (Author/RK)