Union Calendar No. 82

88TH CONGRESS 2d Session

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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STUDY NUMBER IV-DOCUMENTATION AND
DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT RESULTS

NOVEMBER 20, 1964.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. ELLIOTT, from the Select Committee on Government
Research, submitted the following

REPORT

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Preface..

Chapter I. The role of Government in information dissemination....

Chapter II. Scope of Federal scientific and technical information pro-

grams.

Chapter III. Information facilities...

Chapter IV. Scientific and technical publications and technical reports..

Chapter V. Foreign scientific and technical information...

Chapter VI. Conferences and symposia.

Chapter VII. Problems and studies....

Chapter VIII. Conclusions and recommendations.

Glossary..

Appendix A. Federal Council for Science and Technology, Committee on

Scientific and Technical Information, summary progress report, Septem-

ber 1964..

Appendix B. Objectives of information programs as reported to the Select

Committee on Government Research...

Appendix C. Federal scientific and technical information facilities (table).

Appendix C-1. Representative data banks in DOD (fold-in)......---
Appendix C-2. "Milestone" chart of immediate and planned actions for
use of automatic data processing systems and data banks for technical
data management (fold-in).......

Appendix D. Background of congressional activity in relation to automatic

data processing equipment...

Appendix E. Federal support of scientific and technical publications...

Appendix F. Scientific periodicals of four Government departments

(illustration).

Appendix G. Studies in Federal agencies of methods to improve com-

munication of R. & D. information..

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Appendix II. Program activity summary, Office of Science Information

Service..

Appendix H-1. Grants and contracts awarded by NSF in support of

improved dissemination of scientific information.

Acknowledgment..

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