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Information Science Abstracts is published monthly. Copyright 1995 by Documentation Abstracts, Inc. Information Science Abstracts , covering issues from 1966 to date, is also available for online searching. The database is stored in DIALOG Information Services as File 202.

Subscription rate for Information Science Abstracts, Volume 30, 1995 (12 issues) $555 (outside U.S. $650).

Subscription rate for Information Science Abstracts, Volume 31, 1996 (12 issues) $595 (outside U.S. $695).

Individual (non-institutional) members of the American Society for Information Science are eligible for a reduced subscription rate of $125 per volume for personal use.

Published by Plenum Publishing Corporation, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, For Documentation Abstracts, Inc. Founded by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society (DCI).  Currently guided also by the American Library Association (ALA), the American Society of Indexers (ASI), Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC), Association of library and Information Science Education (ALISE), the Medical Library Association (MLA, and the Special Libraries Association (SLA). Other Interested organizations are invited to participate.

Editorial correspondence, should be addressed to Anne Meagher, Managing Editor, Information Science Abstracts, Plenum Publishing Corporation, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013.

Subscription orders and correspondence regarding subscriptions should be addressed to Circulation Department, Plenum Publishing Corporation, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY  10013. (212) 620-8000

Abstracts Classification and Contents

INFORMATION SCIENCE AND DOCUMENTATION

  • 1.0 General Aspects
  • 1.1 Primary and Secondary Sources
  • 1.2 Education for Information Work
  • 1.3 Professional and Organizational Aspects
  • 1.4 Socioeconomic Aspects
  • 1.5 International Aspects
  • 1.6 National and Local Aspects
  • 1.7 Legal Aspects

RESEARCH METHODS

  • 2.0 General Aspects
  • 2.1 Definitions, Theoretical Considerations
  • 2.2 Historical Aspects
  • 2.3 Bibliometrics
  • 2.4 User and Usage Studies
  • 2.5 Vision and Brain Functions
  • 2.6 Psychological Aspects, Cognition
  • 2.7 Social Studies, Demographics
  • 2.8 Mathematics, Logic

INFORMATION GENERATION AND PROMULGATION

  • 3.0 General Aspects
  • 3.1 Writing and Recording
  • 3.2 Editing
  • 3.3 Publicity
  • 3.4 Meetings, Personal Interchange
  • 3.5 Instruction
  • 3.6 Technology Transfer
  • 3.7 Publishing
  • 3.8 Copying, Printing
  • 3.10 Optical and Laser Techniques
  • 3.11 Communications and Telecommunications Systems
  • 3.12 Radio, Television, Video
  • 3.13 Office Communications and Automation

INFORMATION RECOGNITION AND DESCRIPTION

  • 4.0 General Aspects
  • 4.1 Linguistics
  • 4.2 Computer Languages
  • 4.3 Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics
  • 4.5 Translation and Dictionaries
  • 4.6 Directories
  • 4.7 Classification, Indexing and Thesauri
  • 4.8 Coding, Compacting
  • 4.9 Pattern and Character Recognition
  • 4.10 Speech Recognition

INFORMATION PROCESSING AND CONTROL

  • 5.0 General Aspects
  • 5.1 File Design, Building and Updating
  • 5.2 Computer Systems (General)
  • 5.3 Supercomputers
  • 5.4 Advanced Computing, Parallel Processing
  • 5.5 Hardware
  • 5.6 Software and Programming
  • 5.7 Storage
  • 5.8 Graphics and Display
  • 5.9 System Interfacing
  • 5.10 Security Considerations
  • 5.11 Searching and Retrieval

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

  • 6.0 General Aspects
  • 6.1 Networks, Regional Systems, Consortia
  • 6.2 Bibliographic Search Services, Databases
  • 6.3 Abstracting, Indexing, and Review Services
  • 6.4 Audio-Visual and Non-Print Media
  • 6.5 Physical Sciences and Engineering
  • 6.6 Life Sciences and Biomedicine
  • 6.7 Social Sciences and Humanities
  • 6.8 Business, Commerce and Industry
  • 6.9 Management Information Systems and Decision Support
  • 6.10 Law
  • 6.11 Government

LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SERVICES

  • 7.0 General Aspects
  • 7.1 Planning, Administration
  • 7.2 Automation
  • 7.3 Collection Development and Preparation
  • 7.4 Collection Management and Preservation
  • 7.5 Circulation Control
  • 7.6 Interlibrary Lending and Resource Sharing
  • 7.7 User Services, Assistance, and Orientation
  • 7.8 Academic and General Research Libraries
  • 7.9 School Libraries and Media Centers
  • 7.10 Public Libraries
  • 7.11 Archives and Museums

AUTHOR INDEX

SUBJECT INDEX

JOURNALS ABSTRACTED IN THIS ISSUE

 

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