IP Report on Preprint Distribution 1 Theoretical High-Energy Physics Reporting a study of the desirability of disribution of preprints, The Role and Distriution of Written Informal Communication in 'heoretical High Energy Physics appeared reently. The authors are Miles A. Libbey, direcor of the Systems Development Division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), and Gerld Zaltman, Department of Social Relations, ohns Hopkins University. The authors based their study on answers o two questionnaires, one sent to all known igh-energy physics theorists and the other ent to a representative sample of "preprint lirarians" here and abroad. The study concludes hat an experiment with centralized preprint listribution is clearly desirable but that great caution must be exercised. A two-step experiment, to run for 18 months, has been designed for consideration by the physics community. The first step would proide a centralized preprint announcement servce and a directory of high-energy theorists. The second step would add an experimental disribution system designed to introduce speed, efficiency, and economy into formal communiation and to relieve the author of some of his present burden while retaining for him all the controls he now has. That is, distribution of preprints would be made, under strict conrol of the authors, directly to certain selected and authorized individuals. Charges would be nade for the last six months of the experinent to provide an indication of the demand For such services. The report gives details on the survey and he proposed experiment. The project was supported by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commision and the AIP Information Study Project. For further information, write to the Amerian Institute of Physics, 335 East 45th Street, New York, N. Y. 10017. CLR Report Describes 10 Years of Ten years of assistance in projects ranging from library automation to studies of paper deterioration are reviewed in the recently published report of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. The 128-page Tenth Annual Report concludes with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966. The Council, established for the purpose of aiding in the solution of the problems of libraries generally and of research libraries in particular, during its decade of existence has made 346 grants and other allocations, totaling approximately $8.5 million. Projects supported by the Council during the decade are reported, together with resulting publications, in a 50-page appendix to the Tenth Annual Report. A number of projects over the years have dealt with one form or aspect or another of automation. Also chronicled in the Report is an attempt to see into the future, beyond projected concepts of automation. A Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., research team headed by J. C. R. Licklider developed a theoretical system described in Libraries of the Future, published in 1965. The Report notes the CLR's instrumentality in the establishment of the Library Technology Project, under the sponsorship of the American Library Association and Special Libraries Association. Assistance in preparation of two major guides to library resources-the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections and the third edition of the Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada-is reported. The 128-page Report may be obtained from CLR, 1028 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20036. Defense Documents Announced The Technical Abstract Bulletin (TAB), issued by the Defense Documentation Center (DDC), no longer carries duplicate announcements of Department of Defense (DoD) scientific and technical reports appearing in the U. S. Government Research and Development Reports (USGRDR), an announcement abstract journal published by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information of the U. S. Department of Commerce. l. ports which have been apc release and sale are now USGRDR, which is available house on a subscription basis. 0,000 scientific and technical erated each year by the Reent, Test and Evaluation proDepartment of Defense are le to the public. In addition, ces over 15,000 reports from nformation Resources ernment Published information resources in the ent, prepared by the National or Science and Technology of gress* has appeared. rectory of Information Reited States: Federal Governfourth directory of a series e National Referral Center. ent information resources, as tion resources sponsored in y the federal government, are e new publication. More than re included. The directory deof interest, holdings, publicaation services of the various libraries, committees, commisother organizations listed. e publication came from the 1 Center's central register of urces that has been built up was established in 1962 with National Science Foundation. e directory was submitted to it describes to insure textual 19-page book may be purcopy from the Superintendent S. Goverment Printing OffD. C. 20402. Engineering; (2) A Directory of Informa Resources in the United States: Social ences; and (3) A Directory of Informa Resources in the United States: Water. In addition to publishing directories of formation resources, the center has a free ferral service to direct those who need in mation to those who can provide it. In respo to telephone or mail requests for assista the center provides names, addresses, teleph numbers, and brief descriptions of appropri information resources. Details about the Center's activities can obtained by telephoning (202) 967-8242 or writing to the National Referral Center Science and Technology, Library of Congre Washington, D. C. 20540. PHS Issues Research Grants Index The sixth annual Research Grants Index the Public Health Service (PHS), 1966 Editio has been published. It contains scientific su ject matter summaries of research projec conducted by approximately 16,500 scientis in biomedical and health-related research su ported by the PHS during fiscal year 1966. Designed to accelerate communication of r search knowledge, the Index helps to eliminat duplication of effort and facilitates cooperatio and coordination of research among scientist and administrators of scientific programs. Th publication is produced by the Research Docu mentation Section, Statistics and Analysi Branch, Division of Research Grants, Nations Institutes of Health. The 2,283-page 1966 edition is printed i two volumes. The first volume lists grants and contracts under about 7,500 single or compound subject headings representing specific segments of research problems currently being studied by PHS grantees. Volume II contains three appendices. The first appendix lists the grants by grant number with citations to resulting publications; the second lists grants by scienti fic areas; and the third is an alphabetical listing of grantee investigators. ist of Subject Headings 1 Spanish Published A basic tool for the organization of libraries 1 Latin America* has been published by the eneral Secretariat of the Organization of merican States (OAS). The three-volume ista de encabezamientos de materia para ibliotecas is a Spanish language list of subect headings for the subject analysis of lirary books. The work will enable Latin American liraries to achieve greater uniformity of headng terms than has been possible in the past. It contains over 10,000 different terms in all ields of knowledge, with many subdivisions, and indicates related subjects. As a result of he adoption of these standard listings, closer cooperation among libraries is expected. The list itself in Spanish is in two volumes of some 450 pages each; a third volume includes an English-Spanish index to the Spanish terms to aid libraries which have up to now used similar lists in English and have independently translated each of the terms for their own purposes. The Spanish list is based principally on the Library of Congress list used in most large libraries in the United States and in many other countries. Initiated by Marietta Daniels Shepard, chief of the OAS Library Development Program, the Lista was compiled by Carmen Rovira and Jorge Aguayo with the assistance of a $25,000 grant from the Council on Library Resources, Inc. The total cost of the project-more than $75,000-should be more than compensated for by the savings to Latin American libraries previously devoted to the translation and adaptation of English headings and also by making possible new plans for cooperative or centralized cataloguing based on the list. The OAS Library Development Program has distributed free copies to approximately 2,000 of the most important libraries in Latin America and to library schools in the United States. Additional copies at $12.50 for the three volumes may be purchased from Sales and Promotion, Pan American Union, Washington, See page 16. D. C. 20006, or from the OAS offices in the member states. Franklin Institute Offers Computer An alphabetical list of each available issue of each of the Franklin Institute Library's 3,148 scientific and engineering journals, with complete information as to volumes and years held, has appeared. Numbered among these are many of the important physical science and engineering journals now being published throughout the world, including journals from Russia, China, and Japan. Current Periodicals 1966 was prepared by Emerson W. Hilker, librarian of the Institute, and produced from a computer-printed list of journals. Copies are available for $9 from the Photoduplication Service, Franklin Institute Library, 20th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103. ACS Publications Available in Microfilm Editions Microfilm editions of American Chemical Society (ACS) publications will be made available in an experimental program starting in 1968. Users will be licensed to file the films and will have the right to make unlimited copies. Under the licensing arrangement, users will receive a complete set of the back volumes of a given journal on microfilm as well as the current volumes as they become available. The ACS plans to make all of the past, present, and future volumes of its publications available in microform in accordance with user demand. Currently ACS publications carry 40,000 editorial pages per annum; and the existing published volume of material to date, going back to Volume I of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is about 800,000 pages. Further information can be obtained by writing to Microforms, ACS Special Issues Sales, 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Brief Notes on Publications Arctic Research in Western Europe, A Directory of Directories of Science Information Sources, Interna- Agricultural/Biological Vocabulary, National Agri- unpublished research reports and other agricultural- Mutual Exchange in the Scientific Library and World Literature in Physics as Seen Through Physics Some Characteristics of Primary Periodicals in the Scientific Directory 1967 and Annual Bibliography Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Universe of Knowledge: Its Structure and Develop- A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in Index to Poverty; Human Resources and Manpower Behavior & Physiology Index, edited by Joan M. Directory of Canadian Scientific and Technical Periodi- Cowles Encyclopedia of Science, Industry and Tech- Guide to Scientific Periodicals, by Maureen J. An Approach to Cost Effectiveness of a Selective Historical Books and Manuscripts Concerning General Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, edited Proceedings, 9th Annual Institute in Technical and |