Explores the potential for a fully developed energy vocabulary conversion guide. Reports on the analysis and integration of 11 existing vocabularies. (Author/PF)

Proposes a new conceptual basis for visualizing the organization of information, or knowledge, which differentiates between the concept "vectors" for a field of knowledge represented in a multidimensional space, and the state "vectors" for a person based on his understanding of these concepts, and the representational…

Discusses accessibility of needed information and maintenance of individual privacy in terms of the 1974 Freedom of Information Act, and explores the implications for educational practices. Vital Speeches of The Day, City News Publishing Company, Box 606, Southold, N.Y. 11971. Subscription Rates: $12.00 a year; $22.20 two years; $.60, single…

The Mechanized Information Center, a department of The Ohio State University Libraries, offers to the campus community several batch-mode information services from commercially available data bases. The search request interview provides an opportunity for instruction regarding OSU's computer-based literature searches, automated library facilities,…

Sixteen queries, performed on the two systems, resulted in 247 unique relevant references from EMCS and 559 from TOXLINE. The overlap varied considerably, from 6 to 50 percent. It is remarkable that TOXLINE, with nine subfiles specially compiled for toxicology, can be supplemented by EMCS, which in the present study delivered 31 percent of all the…

In New Zealand, public libraries, academic libraries, a special library, and the National Library were surveyed and compared to the University of Oregon Library in the area of management of collections of government publications. The latter has been a depository for U.S. government publications since 1883. (VT)

The informal system of access to research documents, i.e., the "invisible college", can be a handicap to researchers who are not members of this network. Other problems of access include delay in publication and organizational suppression of publicity. (JAB)

The possibility that the relevance decision may be affected by individual differences in openness to information in terms of cognitive style variables is examined. Results are discussed in terms of the relationship between information systems and the "espistemic who." (Author)

A new method for concentrating keywords of a thesaurus, based on a mathematical study of the distribution of characters in a defined natural language. (Author/KP)

Mixed lists of digit pairs and consonant pairs were presented under Sternberg's scanning paradigm. The results indicated that the subjects partitioned this material into discriminable subsets but apparently only used that structure to reduce response latency when the test probes were negative. Probe familiarity is discussed as a basis for this…

Proposes that the development of document-retrieval systems can benefit from the incorporation of conceptual modeling techniques, specifically classification, aggregation, and generalization. An array model is presented which has been designed especially for document retrieval. (Author/EM)

Explains five causes of false drops in online searching: reverse concepts, homographs, truncation, acronyms, and negatives. Examples from a variety of databases are provided. (EM)

Presents criteria in the following areas for evaluation and selection of software for storage, management, and retrieval of text information: (1) input of information; (2) indexing; (3) interactive searching for information; (4) output; (5) selective dissemination of information; (6) security; (7) availability of cheaper, limited versions; and (8)…

Summary of the findings of a critical overview of more than 200 microcomputer programs using PC-DOS/MS-DOS for online information management discusses software for telecommunications, conversion/reformatting, storage and retrieval of text information, and word processing. (6 references) (MES)

An overview of hypertext and hypermedia is followed by a description of the Intermedia system, and possibilities for using hypertext in the information industry are explored. A sidebar discusses information retrieval in the humanities using hypertext, and a 58-item annotated bibliography on hypertext is presented. (7 references) (MES)