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... Rockefeller University Press , New York . Woodford , F. P. 1969. Improving the communication of scien- BioScience 19 ( 7 ) : 625-627 . tific information . APPENDIX THE COUNCIL ON BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES INFORMATION The need for - 71 - -
... Rockefeller University Press , New York . Woodford , F. P. 1969. Improving the communication of scien- BioScience 19 ( 7 ) : 625-627 . tific information . APPENDIX THE COUNCIL ON BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES INFORMATION The need for - 71 - -
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... University of California , Davis ( Board Member , 1968-71 ) . F. Peter Woodford , The Rockefeller University , New York ( Board Member , 1968-71 ) . Raymund L. Zwemer , Director , Translation Project , Federation of American Societies ...
... University of California , Davis ( Board Member , 1968-71 ) . F. Peter Woodford , The Rockefeller University , New York ( Board Member , 1968-71 ) . Raymund L. Zwemer , Director , Translation Project , Federation of American Societies ...
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Page 74 - Sciences; it comprises representatives of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the...
Page 73 - DR. BURTON W. ADKINSON, HEAD, OFFICE OF SCIENCE INFORMATION SERVICE, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, WASHINGTON, DC; ACCOMPANIED BY EUGENE PRONKO.
Page 60 - It further suggests that the National Agricultural Library, the National Library of Medicine, and the Biosciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts, as well as several specialized information centers...
Page 49 - ... facts and observations, are a huge flood. A division of labor between those who create or discover the facts and those who sift, absorb, and correlate the facts seems to be inevitable. This inevitable division of labor corresponds very nearly to the social layering of science envisaged by Wigner. The scientists who collect and sift the facts would in our modern technology constitute an information center. In the simple sciences like physics, which already have a well-defined theoretical structure,...
Page 67 - Handling of Toxicological Information." A report of the President's Science Advisory Committee.
Page 49 - ... group of persons, to be bench scientist, amasser of data, correlater of data, and inventor of new syntheses. But the situation is very different now, especially in the complicated sciences. The data which scientists add to our existing store of data, the new facts and observations, are a huge flood. A division of labor between those who create or discover the facts and those who sift, absorb, and correlate the facts seems to be inevitable.
Page 20 - Free use was made of the resources available at the National Library of Medicine, the National Agricultural Library, the Library of Congress, and the Air Pollution Technical Information Center of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Page 67 - A program for a national information system for physics. 1970-1972. American Institute of Physics. New York.