An Analysis of Proposed Alternatives to the Defense Technical Information Center's Announcement Products and Services

Abstract

Currently, the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) offers it users information about new reports entered into the DTIC database through: the Defense RDT&E Online System (DROLS), the Current Awareness Bibliography (CAB) service and the Technical Abstract Bulletin (TAB). However, the decrease in the number of TAB subscribers, the decreasing usefulness of TAB and its unavailability to many DTIC users are matters of grave concern and force DTIC to look at possible replacements for TAB. In the future, when the vast majority of DTIC users have their own terminals, the need for paper-based announcement products may be eliminated. However, until that time, DTIC must continue to produce print products. Therefore, the authors recommend that the following actions be taken. (1) DTIC should discontinue the publication of TAB; and (2) DTIC should publish an unclassified, limited, monthly, comprehensive acquisitions list with indexes. The citations in the list would not contain abstracts or subject terms. A subject index would not be offered.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA160365

Entities

People

  • Barbara Lesser
  • Marcis Hanna
  • Richard Evans

Organizations

  • Defense Technical Information Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Bibliographies
  • Computer Programming
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Economic Analysis
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Military Aircraft
  • Military Research
  • Production Engineering
  • Radar Altimeters
  • Terminals
  • Test And Evaluation
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Library and Information Science