Sources of Information,

Abstract

The Scientific and Technical Documentation and Information Centre of the Armed Forces (TDCK) publishes monthly abstract bulletins concerning 15 subject areas, each bulletin containing 50-100 abstracts of max 200 words concerning scientific or technical reports and articles. This paper gives details about the information sources from which the reports and articles are selected and deals with external online or ondisc databases that are used. TDCK also publishes the monthly acquisitions list of the Central Military Catalogue and coordinates the production of the automated cumulative catalogue of books. Details are given about the information sources (books, reference works and encyclopedia) that are present in major Defence libraries. Attention is also given to other information sources such as standards, manuals, loose leaf publications, videotapes and to information guides and registries.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 20, 1988
Accession Number
ADP005826

Entities

People

  • Ir. B. Zijlstra

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Catalogs
  • Databases
  • Production

Readers

  • Library and Information Science