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Scientific Information Transfer: The Editor’s Role

Proceedings of the First International Conference of Scientific Editors, April 24–29, 1977, Jerusalem

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  • © 1978

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Editors:
  1. Miriam Balaban

    1. National Council for Research and Development, Jerusalem, Israel
      Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

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Table of contents (82 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. Editors and the Impact of New Techniques: Mechanization and Organization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Some Aspects of Data Recording and Microform Output for Information Distribution

      • Klaus-Dieter Lehmann
      Pages 3-8

    3. Editorial Processing Centres: A View from the United Kingdom

      • A. M. Woodward
      Pages 9-20

    4. Editorial Processing Centres and International Scientific Journals

      • A. A. Manten
      Pages 21-24

    5. Editing a Photographically Reproduced Journal

      • Earl J. Taft
      Pages 25-27

    6. The Dual Journal Concept

      • D. H. Michael Bowen
      Pages 29-30

    7. Innovation in the Publication of Lengthy Research Articles

      • A. A. Manten
      Pages 31-33

    8. On-Line Preparation of Typescript

      • U. Bloch, K. Shmueli
      Pages 35-41

    9. Primary Publications and Modern Information Systems Copyright Problems from the Viewpoint of Editors of Scientific Journals

      • Paul Katzenberger
      Pages 43-50

    10. Librarians’ Reactions to Non-Conventional Publishing Methods

      • A. M. Woodward
      Pages 51-58

    11. Panel: Users’ Reactions to New Techniques in Scientific Publishing

      • Shneior Lifson
      Pages 59-70

    12. Multiple Choice, A Publications Option for a Diverse Science

      • Alfred P. Fishman, Stephen R. Geiger
      Pages 71-76

    13. The Journal as a Centre for International Communications: The Experience of Current Anthropology

      • Cyril S. Belshaw
      Pages 77-82

    14. Flagging and Tagging Scientific Data

      • Edgar F. Westrum Jr.
      Pages 83-94

  3. Science, Society and the Editor

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Treatment of 100 Man-Related Scientific Problems: Science as an Indicator of Publications

      • Jacques Richardson
      Pages 97-104

    3. Information Transfer and Management in the European Community

      • J. M. Gibb
      Pages 105-111

    4. How Editors Catalyze the Publication Explosion

      • Yehudah L. Werner
      Pages 113-121

    5. Logopollution and Ways to Prevent It

      • Itamar Perath
      Pages 123-124
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About this book

It was Faraday who in 1821 said that there are three necessary stages of useful research. The first to begin it, the second to· end it, and the third 1 to publish it. There has since indeed been so much research and publication that we have become increasingly alarmed by the galloping proliferation of scientific information produced in relation to the user's ability to retrieve and consume it effectively, conveniently and creatively. In 1948, to deal with this concern, the Royal Society Scientific Infor­ 1 mation Conference held in London spanned the whole realm of scientific in­ formation. Sir Robert Robinson, President of the Royal Society, in his open­ ing address noted that "the study of scientific information services in all its ramifications has enormous scope", and the London conference dealt with scientific publication, format, editorial policy, subject grouping, organiza­ tion, abstracting, reviews, classification, indexing and training of infor­ mation officers. It was about this time that information science began to develop more on the retrieval end, so it seems logical that the first editors' group founded in 1949 was ICSU AB, the International Council of Scientific Unions Abstract­ ing Board. In 1958 the National Academy of Sciences International Conference of 2 Scientific Information in Washington limited its interests and expanded on the later phases of the life cycle of information - storage and retrieval.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Council for Research and Development, Jerusalem, Israel

    Miriam Balaban

  • Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

    Miriam Balaban

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Scientific Information Transfer: The Editor’s Role

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the First International Conference of Scientific Editors, April 24–29, 1977, Jerusalem

  • Editors: Miriam Balaban

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9863-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1978

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0917-2Published: 30 September 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-9865-0Published: 13 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9863-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 686

  • Topics: Printing and Publishing

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