RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NATIONAL DOCUMENT HANDLING SYSTEMS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Appendix A A Background Study Vol. II

摘要

This report contains recommendations for a national document-handling system in science and technology. The first of the two volumes making up the report contains a summary and a set of recommendations. Problems in the scientific and technical information and document area are considered, and a set of principles and requirements for a national system are presented. The preferred system and four alternative approaches are developed and evaluated.nThe second volume consists of six sections. The first section describes the present document-handling system both in terms of organizations involved and in terms of the flow of documents in the system. Extensive statistical information is given. An evaluation of the findings of studies concerned with users' needs and evaluations of scientific and technical information services follow. The laws and executive orders establishing the authority for existing Federal programs are presented. Next, a detailed analysis of previous studies and proposals is given. Finally, three advanced document-handling systems and the approaches to document system automation they represent are described, along with a description and evaluation of hardware and software developments as they apply to information and document-handling problems. A glossary, bibliography, and index are included.