New information program for AIP

DEC 01, 1969

How do you cope with the ever‐increasing flood of literature? A new computer‐assisted system will offer new and better ways of obtaining physics information. We seek your opinions.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3035292

Arthur Herschman

Franz L. Alt

H. William Koch

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, with support from the National Science Foundation, is currently engaged in a major effort to develop and implement a computer‐assisted “National Information System for Physics.” Designed by physicists, for physicists, the new system is scheduled to begin pilot operations early next year. We at AIP believe the system to be urgently needed, but how do you, the physicists, feel about it?

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References

1. V. Z. Williams, E. Hutchisson, H. C. Wolfe, PHYSICS TODAY, 19, no. 1, 45 (1966).https://doi.org/PHTOAD
2. H. W. Koch, PHYSICS TODAY, 21, no. 4, 41 (1968).https://doi.org/PHTOAD
3. A Program for a National Information System for Physics, American Institute of Physics, publication no. 1D69R (August 1969).

More about the authors

Arthur Herschman, Yale University.

Franz L. Alt, University of Vienna.

H. William Koch, National Bureau of Standards.