Technical reports I have known…and probably written
NOV 01, 1960
This article is based on a paper (“The Technical and Scientific Report”) presented at the Third Annual Institute in Technical and Industrial Communications, Colorado State University, July 11–15, 1960. The author is program director in the Office of Science Information Service of the National Science Foundation.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3056706
The technical report is a specialized form of exposition that in recent years has advanced from a position of semiobscurity in the scientific information field to one of major importance. Today a sizable fraction of the new and significant results of US scientific research first sees the light of publication day in the 75 000 or so such documents that are issued annually in this country.
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Dwight E. Gray, National Science Foundation.
© 1960 American Institute of Physics
