APPENDIX H-1 GRANTS AND CONTRACTS The following grants and contracts were awarded by the National Science Foundation during June and July 1961 in support of improved dissemination of scientific information. RESEARCH AND STUDIES Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaus (London), $19,400 for continued support of an investigation into the performance characteristics of indexing techniques. Harvard University, $48,700 for support of studies of the flow of technical information and its role in research and development decision-making. Herner & Co., $820 contract for a survey of professional scientific journals. Lehigh University, $19,500 for support of a study of theories and models of information storage and retrieval. Princeton University, $50,000 for support of experimentation with a citation index for statistical methodology. Rutgers, $30,500 for support of seminars on systems for the organization of information. U.S. Department of Commerce/National Bureau of Standards, $100,000 for support of a research information center and advisory service on information processing. Western Reserve University, $74,000 for research on automatic processing of metallurgical abstracts for the purpose of information retrieval. Yale University, $46,300 for support of statistical studies of networks of scientific papers. INFORMATION SYSTEMS Bunker-Ramo Corporation, $240,000 contract for computer-aided research in machine translation. Chemical Abstracts Service, $288,000 for the development of a computer-centered chemical information service. Harvard University, $240,500 for research on automatic translation and mathematical linguistics. University of Illinois, $48,900 for programing, testing, and evaluating a com puterized and integrated processing system for university library procedures. Information Dynamics, $251 support for the synthesis and analysis of scientific information networks. Inforonics, Inc., $20,074 contract for machine recording of textual information during the publication of scientific journals. U.S. Department of Commerce/National Bureau of Standards, $58,200 support for research on picture and language processing. PUBLICATIONS American Geographical Society, $49,000 for continued support and publication of the Serial Atlas of the Marine Environment. American Geophysical Union, $30,000 support for preparation and publication of the IG Bulletin. American Institute of Physics, $64,081 support of the English editions, 1904 issues, of five Russian journals: Technical Physics, Solid State Physics, Astronomy, Acoustics, and Crystallography. American Institute of Physics, $23,652 publication support for Applied Optics. American Mathematical Society, $6,787 support of a program of selective translations of mathematical research articles from Russian and other languages. American Mathematical Society, $225,400 for support for the preparation and publication of Mathematical Reviews. American Meteorological Society, $100,000 for emergency support of Meteor ological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts. 145 erican Museum of Natural History, $22,200 for support of the publication of lodes of Reproduction in Fishes. erican Society of Mechanical Engineers, $144,000 for preparation and publiation of Applied Mechanics Reviews. ›logical Abstracts, Inc., $33,800 support for the development of a program eading to the mechanization of serial and abstract records. iversity of Chicago, $17,000 for support of the Journal of Geology. e Combustion Institute, $25,000 for publication support of the Tenth Symposium on Combustion. nsultant's Bureau Enterprises, Inc., $6,000 contract for translation, editing, composition, printing, and circulation of the 1963 issues of the Russian jouraals: Doklady (Biological, Biochemical, and Botanical Sections), Microbiol ogy, and Soviet Plant Physiology. uncil for Old World Archaeology, $20,000 for continued partial support for preparation and publication of COWA surveys and bibliographies. he Geochemical Society, $40,334 support of the production of an English edition (1904) of the journal, Geochemistry International. aciological Society, $7,000 for partial support of the Journal of Glaciology. diana University Foundation, $12,200 for support for the preparation and publication of volume III of Current Trends in Linguistics, subtitled Theoretiical Foundations. he Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., $101,773 for support of the translation and production of three Russian Journals under two EngIlish titles: Radio Engineering and Electronic Physics and Telecommunica tions and Radio Engineering. nternational Communications for Social Sciences Documentation, $34,300 support of four surveys of research on interdisciplinary problems within the social sciences. International Journal of the Science of Metals, Inc., $22,000 for support of the production of English editions of three Russian journals: Metallurgist, Metal Science and Heat Treatment of Metals, and Refractories. The New York Academy of Sciences, $3,000 for support for publication of the proceedings of the First Conference on Learning, Remembering, and Forgetting. New York Botanical Garden, $12,700 for support for the publication of two issues of North American Flora. Optical Society of America, $8,776 for support for the translation and editing of the 1962 issues of the Russian journal, Optics and Spectroscopy. U.S. Department of Commerce/Office of Technical Services, $48,000 support for operational functions of NSF's Special Foreign Currency Science Information Program during fiscal year 1965. The Wistar Institute, $7,300 support for publication of the symposium proceedings, Retention of Functional Differentiation in Cultured Cells. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN INFORMATION International Council of Scientific Unions, $10,350 for continued partial support of the ICSU Abstracting Board. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $12,242 for support for the acquisition and compilation of a,current union list of Communist Chinese serials. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $2,900 for support of a study into the dissemination of scientific and technical information in the U.S.S.R. National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services, $36,400 for partial support of the secretariat of the NFSAIS. Witteborg & Williams, Inc., $500 contract for the design of an exhibit on S&T library resources. FEDERAL INFORMATION Library of Congress, $307,000 for support of the National Referral Center for Science and Technology. National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, $105,000 for support of the Office of Critical Tables. DATA AND PUBLICATIONS Datatrol Corporation, $5,336 contract for consulting services in the science information field. Herner & Co., $28,770 contract for a survey and study of nonconventional technical inforination systems. Scripta Technica, Inc., $9,700 contract for the preparation of a series of bulleting describing the Scientiflo Information Activities of Federal Agencies. INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL Harold Borko, System Development Corporation, $702; John F. Horty, University of Pittsburgh, $525; Phyllis A. Richmond, University of Rochester Library, $570; and Don R. Swanson, University of Chicago, $597 to participate in the International Study Conference on Classification Research of the International Federation for Documentation, to be held in Elsinore, Denmark, September 14-18, 1964. Stephen Juhasz, Southwest Research Institute, $810 to participate in the International Congress of Applied Mechanics and the meeting of the International Federation of Astronautics, Munich, Germany, and Warsaw, Poland, August 30-September 12, 1964. Jerrold Orne, University of North Carolina, $708 to participate in the meeting of the International Standards Organization, Technical Committee 48: Documentation, to be held in Budapest, Hungary, October 12-16, 1904. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Select Committee on Government Research wishes to express s sincere gratitude for the cooperation and counsel of the members of s advisory panels, and to the following organizations for their pinions and comments: erospace Medical Association. merican Chemical Society.. merican Council on Education. merican Dental Association. merican Geophysical Union. merican Institute of Chemical Engineers. American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical & Petroleum Engineers. American Institute of Physics. American Library Association. American Mathematical Society. American Medical Association. American Psychological Association. American Society for Testing Materials. American Society of Civil Engineers. American Society for Engineering Education. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. American Society of Microbiologists. American Pharmaceutical Association. Associated Business Publications. Association for Machine Translation & Computational Linguistics. Association of Research Libraries. Brookings Institution. Council of Library Resources, Inc. Engineers Joint Council. Entomological Society of America. Institute for the Advancement of Medical Communication, Inc. National Association of Science Writers. National Federation of Science Abstracting & Indexing Services. Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association. |