This study identifies the amount of duplication among the lists of primary journals regularly monitored by the BioSciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts, the Chemical Abstracts Service and Engineering Index, Inc. (4 references) (SJ)

Summarizes the historical development, functions, and changing nature of secondary information services, with emphasis on abstracting and indexing services. (JL)

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…

This research shows that by submitting samples of the client's recent professional reading material to automatic text analysis, Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) profiles can be prepared that result in significantly higher initial recall scores than do those prepared by conventional techniques; relevance scores are not significantly…

Suggests that action to remove information inequity should be guided by the principles of contextualism and incrementalism, by motivation of information users, and by more knowledge of the absorptive process that is unique to each cultural group. (FM)

The first of three articles on the market value of information commodities defines information and commodities to characterize information commodities. The second article identifies five value-added dimensions of information commodities and discusses pricing. The third article analyzes the market for information commodities in terms of supply and…

A survey of the data bases used in satisfying some of the information requests received by the Bell Laboratories literature searching service revealed that 58 information sources were used 305 times and that 4 major sources accounted for 155 (51 percent) of the uses. (Author/JB)

The use of extracts as a substitute for abstracts in information services is explored via a survey and a literature review and guidelines for selecting extract material from documents are given. (30 references) (NH)

A general consideration of the entry of foreign personal names and of indexing theory, as well as of the principles of transliteration and transcription, is followed by guidelines designed to help the practicing indexer improve the consistency of personal name entries. (Author/MF)

Discusses the components of marketing (i.e., consumer markets, product development, sales, advertising and promotion, packaging, distribution, pricing, and market research), how information products and services relate to those components, and the pricing of products from a bibliographic database. Two figures and a 17-item reference list are…

The research reported here deals with the formulation and subsequent evaluation of different promotional programs for a batch-processed current awareness service provided by the Mechanized Information Center (MIC) at Ohio State University. (7 references) (Author)

Presents profiles of four interest groups whose members are engaged in some aspect of secondary information activity: the International Council of Scientific Unions Abstracting Board, the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services, the Information Industry Association, and the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers.…

Users of seven MEDLINE information centers were investigated in terms of characteristics, motivations, purposes and expectations in using the service. (Author)

Evaluation of a current awareness service in physics and astronomy at the University of Texas. The service provides selected items from Searchable Physics Information Notices tapes. (Author/LS)