Analysis of Proposed Alternatives to the Defense Technical Information Center's Announcement Products and Services

摘要

Currently, the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) offers it users information about new reports entered into the DTIC database through: the Defense RDT&E Online System (DROLS), the Current Awareness Bibliography (CAB) service and the Technical Abstract Bulletin (TAB). However, the decrease in the number of TAB subscribers, the decreasing usefulness fo TAB and its unavailability to many DTIC users are matters of grave concern and force DTIC to look at possible replacements for TAB. In the future, when the vast majority of DTIC users have their own terminals, the need for paper-based announcement products may be eliminated. However, until that time, DTIC must continue to produce print products. Therefore, the authors recommend that the following actions be taken. (1) DTIC should discontinue the publication of TAB; and (2) DTIC should publish unclassified, limited, monthly, comprehensive acquisitions list with indexes. The citations in the list would not contain abstracts or subject terms. A subject list would not be offered. (Author)