Summarizes the status, organization, and themes of national research programs in information science. National plans from six countries are explored with respect to the planning organizations, content of national research plans, and desirable elements of a strategy for building the new discipline. (SW)

Examines future implications and significant trends in the field of scientific technical information, including (1) decentralized preparation and collection of formalized input bibliographic and/or factual data, (2) centralized world-wide processing of both kinds of data bases, and (3) nationally decentralized output information services, and…

This article explores the growth, origins, technological development, and current activities of bibliographic data bases, and examines the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science national program relative to these aspects. (Author)

Discusses documentation and information in the social sciences in Austria, including the demand for information, information systems and information services, social research and main institutions of documentation and information, and a survey of institutions/organizations. (VT)

Assesses the present situation of information and documentation services in the social sciences in Belgium, including information and documentation on social science literature, research, and science data; services and technical tools used; existing international cooperation; and possibilities and areas of European collaboration. (VT)

Describes information and documentation in the social sciences (SSID) in Canada, and outlines SSID activities in literature, research, and data. SSID is characterized as highly dispersed, and underdeveloped, having few national foci, and no clear national center. (VT)

Briefly surveys social science documentation in Switzerland. (VT)

This brief description of the system of social science information in Yugoslavia includes size, scope, and publications. (VT)

Relates the setting-up of the International Social Sciences Information System (MISON), which reflects common social development and ideological processes characteristic of the socialist countries and the growing cooperation between them; and discusses some of its proposed goals and activities. (VT)

Describes documents that gave shape to the scientific information policy of Bulgaria, determined its goal, and indicated the fundamental principles of its strategy and tactics. The National System of Scientific and Technical Information (NSSTI) has established links with other European centers of scientific information. (VT)

Includes national documentation and information activities in Czechoslovakia, structure and aims of national centers, information services, technical means, information users, international cooperation, planned participation in international systems, possibility of mutual interconnection of automated information systems, and preconditions and…

Includes Danish organizational structure, main institutions, services, technical tools, users, existing international cooperation, and planned participation in international systems. (VT)

Covers German literature, research, and data on activities, institutions, services, technical tools, users, existing international cooperation, planned participation in international systems, feasibility of automated information systems, and Euorpean cooperation. (VT)

Includes national centers and main institutions of Finland, services provided and national cooperation, users, existing international cooperations, planned participation in international systems, and feasibility of mutually linked automated information systems. (VT)

Includes a general outline; central and main French institutions; services; technical tools; users; existing international cooperation; planned participation in international systems; feasibility of mutually linked automated information systems; needs, preconditions and obstacles; and priorities and principal fields for cooperation. (VT)