Physics Documentation Symposium

PROGRESS made during the past decade in providing more support for research, in encouraging the free international exchange of scientific information, and in fostering full dissemination of the results of research has been a factor in the flooding of existing channels of scientific communication with more new knowledge than can generally be assimilated. In physics, the mounting accumulation of published material and otherwise available data is creating new difficulties for those who must search the world's physics literature for the specific information they need. As a major publisher of physics research journals, the American Institute of Physics is interested in finding solutions for these problems and has initiated action to explore the use of information retrieval methods and to assist in developing improved indexing and abstracting techniques.