Response time in large, inverted file document retrieval systems is determined by time required to access files of document identifiers on disk and process a Boolean search request. A specialized computer system has been devised that can perform a complicated sample search involving 70 terms and over 60,000 document references 12 to 60 times…

This report is a survey of five on-line retrieval systems that, with one exception, have been used to demonstrate on-line access to the recently developed Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) inventory of government sponsored work now in progress in the area of information sciences and technology. The report was prepared to…

Contained in this document are four selected articles from the Russian language periodical "Ekonomika i Organizatsiya Promyshlennogo Proizvodstva." The selections are: "The New Science of Information" by S.L. Sobolev, "On Ways to Develop Organizational Structures in Information Science" by V.D. Grober,…

The American Institute of Physics Current Physics Information program offers new products to help scientists and engineers stay up to date, including a computer tape file and microfilm cartridge of selected articles. Later additions will include title, advance abstracts and bibliographic publications. (TS)

SEARCH STRATEGIES WHICH CAN BE CONTINUOUSLY MODIFIED WERE DEVELOPED FOR COORDINATE SEARCHING SYSTEMS. USING THE FILES OF THE NASA TECHNOLOGY UTILIZATION PROGRAM AT THE KNOWLEDGE AVAILABILITY SYSTEMS CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED OF THE RETRIEVAL OF RELEVANT DOCUMENTS BY BOTH MANUAL AND MACHINE METHODS FOR FIVE QUESTIONS…

The identification of information elements can provide an important tool for the systematic development of an information system design. A state-of-the-art survey reveals mounting recognition and interest in the problem, a considerable history of prior efforts, but no well-defined methodology. A study in the context of a national information…

This document describes the major organizational components of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system, the interactions between those components, and the major products and services provided by those components. (WTB)

The purpose of this section is to specify the procedure for making changes to the ERIC database after the data involved have been announced in the abstract journals RIE or CIJE. As a matter of general ERIC policy, a document or journal article is not re-announced or re-entered into the database as a new accession for the purpose of accomplishing a…

This Glossary contains an alphabetic list of some 291 terms used in the ERIC Processing Manual (EPM) or in connection with the generation of the ERIC database and the work of the ERIC Clearinghouses and other ERIC contractors. Each term is defined as it is used in the ERIC context. Appended to the Glossary is a list of 203 commonly-appearing…

This loose-leaf manual provides the detailed rules, guidelines, and examples to be used by the components of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Network in acquiring and selecting documents and in processing them (i.e., cataloging, indexing, abstracting) for input to the ERIC computer system and subsequent announcement in…

A generalized file-conversion program suite for the EUDISED (European Documentation and Information System for Education) information network, suitable for running on a wide range of mainframe computers, is suggested and described. Time and expenditures required to implement the system are assessed. Two other possible methods of handling the data…

The Documentation Conference on Developmental Communication Resource Materials was held in October 1970 to help the Communication Institute at the East-West Center to define needs for documentation work in Asia and the Pacific, and the means by which to meet part of those needs. This report describes discussions of one of the Communication…

In addition to books, brochures and other printed materials, collecting operations gather together a daily increasing number of records, tapes, slides, cinematographic films or magnetoscopic tapes. Author discusses the special problems of processing these documents. (Author/HB)

Technical notes are presented concerning documentation of primary and secondary source materials for educational buildings. In considering the procurement of literature for a school building department, discussion is directed to--(1) attainment of materials from National Commissions for UNESCO and from ARISBR, (2) loan and exchange of…

The purpose of the Library of Congress Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) pilot project was to provide libraries with catalog data encoded on magnetic tape in order to determine the feasibility of centralized computerized cataloging in support of library functions. Sixteen participants were selected on the basis of expressed interest, available…