ELIGIBILITY AND REGISTRATION FOR NASA INFORMATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

A variety of services is available to organizations of the following types that have registered with NASA to receive specific services or products:

1. NASA offices, research centers, contractors, subcontractors, grantees, and consultants;

2. Other U.S. Government agencies and their contractors;

3. Libraries in the United States that have arrangements with NASA to maintain collections of NASA documents for public reference;

4. Other organizations in the United States having a need for NASA documents in work related to aeronautics and space research;

5. Organizations abroad that have established reciprocal document exchange arrangements with NASA.

Only the central service points or central points of document acquisition and control within qualified organizations are eligible to register for NASA products and services. Domestic organizations that may be eligible to receive various classes of NASA publications and services should address their requests for registration or for further information to:

NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility

ATTN: Registration Activity

P.O. Box 8757

B.W.I. Airport, Maryland 21240

Organizations abroad should direct requests to the same address, but to the attention of: International Exchange Program.

AVAILABILITY OF STAR ABSTRACTS ON MICROFICHE

Microfiche of the abstract sections of this issue and other issues of STAR are available on annual subscription from NTIS, Attn: Subscriptions, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161. Annual subscription rates are $70.00 North America; $140.00 foreign. Abstract sections for previous years retroactive to 1964 are available at the current rates. Microfiche for individual STAR issue abstract sections are not available.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF NASA DOCUMENTS

DOMESTIC: NASA and NASA-sponsored documents and a large number of aerospace publications are available to the public for reference purposes at the library maintained by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Technical Information Service, 555 West 57th Street, 12th Floor, New York, New York 10019.

EUROPEAN: An extensive collection of NASA and NASA-sponsored publications is maintained by the British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Wetherby, Yorkshire, England for public access. The British Library Lending Division also has available many of the non-NASA publications cited in STAR. European requesters may purchase facsimile copy or microfiche of NASA and NASA-sponsored documents, those identified by both the symbols # and * from ESA Information Retrieval Service European Space Agency, 8-10 rue Mario-Nikis, 75738 Paris CEDEX 15, France.

FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM

In order to provide the general public with greater access to U.S. Government publications, Congress established the Federal Depository Library Program under the Government Printing Office (GPO), with 50 regional depositories responsible for permanent retention of material, inter-library loan, and reference services. At least one copy of nearly every NASA and NASA-sponsored publication, either in printed or microfiche format, is received and retained by the 50 regional depositories. A list of the regional GPO libraries, arranged alphabetically by state, appears on the inside back cover. These libraries are not sales outlets. A local library can contact a Regional Depository to help locate specific reports, or direct contact may be made by an individual.