A brief history of bibliographic activities of the U.S. Geological Survey, including development of a computerized publishing system is given. Also described is the design of the bibliographic search system, application of the Generalized Information Processing System (GIPSY) to storage and retrieval of earth sciences literature, and preliminary…

The results showed that the selection criteria laid down by Drugdoc are strictly adhered to; the mean time of alerting of an article is 11.3 weeks after receipt of the journal, and all articles from a particular journal issue are reported by Drugdoc on average within 13.6 weeks. (3 references) (Author/MM)

Indicates how a college, with an IBM 1130 computer, can facilitate information storage and retrieval by using magnetic disc storage in conjunction with ACT Program, 80-column Hollerith-type card format especially designed for the college. (JF)

The Clinical Documentation Section of Schering Corporation's Medical Information Center has developed an automated document storage and retrieval system capable of generating indexes to all documents in the system, summaries, and reports for management by computer. (MF)

The first of a series of five papers whose aim is to find a rational basis for indexing and some means to evaluate it. (Author)

The Upper Midwest Regional Educational Laboratory has developed a complete information system as a support for its educational development program. (Author)

Describes the background, document and subject coverage, access points, indexing, and other features of the online version of Energy Bibliography and Index (EBIB). A set of nine figures illustrate such things as a sample EBIB record, searchable fields in the EBIB database, and searching EBIB by index terms. (JL)

Studied the relationship between the vocabulary of user queries and the vocabulary of documents relevant to the queries, as well as the value of adding to the document description record in a retrieval system keywords from previous queries for which the document had proved useful. Eight references are listed. (FM)

This proposed alternative for resequencing output from online searches of journal literatures includes sorting hits by the journal in which they appear, and organizing hits within journal by the number of hits each journal contains. Benefits to the user are discussed, and a "Bradfordized" example is appended. (Author/SW)

SEQUEL, a programing language designed for use in database management systems, is shown to be useful in document retrieval systems. Its retrieval capabilities are detailed, some disadvantages noted, and possible additional features are suggested. (FM)

Provides a directory of online databases available as of October 1979. Scope, vendor, update frequency, and user charges are included. (RAA)

Offers suggestions for retrieval of bibliographic data by those interested in revealing interdisciplinarity and by those interested in creating interdisciplinarity, or interdisciplinary syntheses. Demonstrates Dialog's RANK command as a means of revealing interdisciplinarity in any field, and describes examples of synthesizing work from one…

Discusses the need for tools that analyze Earth changes in time ranges, and describes a data structure for creating and managing archives of thematic maps derived by classifying remotely sensed images by soft techniques (soft maps). Considers time-based models and provides an example of the new data structure. (Author/LRW)