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Creation of a quarterly keyword index to campus grant projects is the chief investigator's name as the key to a section of project summaries. A third section is also included, listing the summaries under the name of the sponsoring department. (Author)

An experimental SDI service based on the Index Chemicus Registry System (ICRS) machine-readable data base is evaluated. (10 references) (Author)

A discussion of how non-print materials can be placed in each school building for greater accessibility. (HB)

Books are automatically retrieved -- and filed -- at the Health Sciences Library of Ohio State University. (Author)

A program is described which identifies functional group interconversion reactions, hydrogenations, and dehydrogenations in a data base containing structures encoded as Wiswesser Line Notations. Production of the data base is briefly described. (17 references) (Authors)

An analysis of the literature on music and musicology by subject and bibliographic form and by language and country of origin is presented. Document titles were found to be relatively informative and a titles index is suggested as a possibility in view of RILM Abstract's tardiness. (6 references) (Author/NH)

Picture storage and retrieval are discussed. The use of Individual and Group cataloging is explained. (Part 1 appeared in the October, 1972 issue of Special Libraries''). (1 reference) (Author)

A description of several resource learning centers in English schools, including storage methods and retrieval systems. (AK)

The National Library of Medicine has eight international MEDLARS quid-pro-quo arrangements with the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, West Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada and the World Health Organization. Policy aspects of these arrangements are discussed as well as the organizational and operational characteristics of the non-U.S. Medlars…

The effectiveness and efficiency of five index languages in the subject area of library and information science are compared. Full details of the text and retrieval results are presented. (17 references) (Author/NH)

Some of the literature concerning citation indexing is discussed with emphasis on research projects. (52 references) (Author/NH)

The direct-chaining technique of hash coding is generalized in a manner that is useful for storing records on the basis of non-unique search keys. Two hash functions are used, a process implying a tree structure. Two models, one involving unique and the other non-unique keys, are presented. (7 references) (Author/KE)

Analysis of the distribution of relevant answers to 41 search profiles among the 80 subject sections of Chemical Abstracts" revealed that the average profile requires 10 CA-subject sections for adequate coverage. The average printing expense could be reduced 25 percent by searching the individual profiles in the appropriate subject sections. (5…