Aslib Proceedings: Volume 28 Issue 8

Science at the hinge of history

Magnus Pyke

How happy we are to be able to live a comfortable, warm, wealthy life in the modern age of today. Grateful to science we may not be but just the same we know, if we ever stop to…

The applicability of Editorial Processing Centres to UK publishing

A.M. Woodward

Faced with rapidly rising production costs and slowly rising demand, publishers of scholarly journals, especially learned societies, must examine cheaper production methods and…

Interlibrary loan usage within Durham University Library, science section 1973/74

W.B. Woodward

The interlibrary loan service was and is an ‘open ended’ service. The gross characteristics were known and details of each transaction were on record. What was not known was the…

The INSPEC scheme as a library classification

Ian Malley

For some years there has been disenchantment with the traditional, general classification schemes, and many special schemes covering single disciplines have appeared. Not all of…