Pyrodynamics
Abstract
A special technical journal, in the area of applied thermal processes, began publication in 1964 with a strong orientation toward documentation. The majority of the papers published to date have been carefully sought out as valuable technical society preprints which were not destined for publication in society Journals of broad and huge audiences. Tentative conclusions are drawn as to the availability ofsuch preprinted papers, their characteristics, and the problem of effecting revisions as necessary for publication. Experience in identifying and acquiring review copies of pertinent books is recounted and qualitative statistics are given relative to the extent of reviewing elsewhere. It isconcluded that the normal reviewing process is haphazard and far from comprehensive; one seeking to build a library of excellence in his own field is ill-served by the prevailing pattern of technical book reviews. A system of screening the published and report literature in the area of applied thermal processes is described which leads to a select listing of significant items. These, plus the cited references of the original published papers, are key-punched on cards, and a listing of the cards is provided as copy to the printer, in lieu of typing, for a General Bibliography, serially numbered. The punched cards serve as input data for preparation of a KWIC Index of the entire bibliography. Citation Indexing for the original published papers is made possible through editorial identification of cited references already located in the General Bibliography previously published. The punched cards are available to be copied for external documentation research.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1966
- Accession Number
- AD0638751
Entities
People
- Gilbert S. Bahn