The significance of the Cranfield tests on index languages
- 1 September 1991
- proceedings article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Abstract
1946 saw the lifting of the security restrictions on large numbers of scientific and technical reports which had been written during World War Two. Pre-war virtually all publication had been in journals, and the report format was strange and unfamiliar, both for the scientific community and for librarians. As such they presented new challenges; the administrative problem of actually being able to obtain copies of the reports was tackled by setting up new government agencies with directKeywords
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