NTIS Bibliographic Database User's Guide for Final Issue Tape Format and IA-Edit Internal Tape Format (Revised)

摘要

The User's Guide defines the ADP file format of the NTIS FINAL ISSUE Tape format and the IA-EDIT Internal Tape format. It includes brief descriptions and examples of data in each field of the file. The document should be used in conjunction with 'Guidelines for Descriptive Cataloging of Reports, 1985'. (PB-86-112349). The User's Guide is intended primarily for ADP persons who need to know the detail and format for programming. The NTIS FINAL ISSUE tape format holds bibliographic data used to announce specialized technical information in 'Government Reports Announcements and Index' (GRA&I). The bimonthly NTIS journal describes reports, journal articles, data files, software and U.S. Government owned inventions. The NTIS Final Issue tape file is used to edit and publish the GRA&I and Abstract Newsletters, and is itself leased by many NTIS customers, such as, DIALOG, BRS, NERAC, etc. Most logical records for a document have 2 or 3 physical 1024 character blocks. The forty-two data fields begin with a 2 or 3 character tag and end with a cent sign (terminator/delimiter). The NTIS Final Issue Format is similar to the NTIS IA-EDIT Internal tape format. The IA-EDIT format lacks the data field tags, and is not available for customers. It is used internally by NTIS and some agencies submit their data to NTIS in this format for announcement in GRA&I, etc.