Aslib Proceedings: Volume 25 Issue 1

Editorial

Rarely if ever, for all their long history, can the British people have entered such a momentous New Year as on this first day of January, nineteen hundred and seventy‐three. For…

The use of external current awareness services at Southampton University

C.C. Parker

First of all let me say a word about the background to this case study. When I arrived at Southampton over three years ago, there were about forty‐seven current awareness profiles…

Experiences of BP's Patents Information Branch in using commercial patent documentation services

B.F.M. Helliwell

The impact of an external documentation service on the operation of an Information Unit cannot be fully appreciated unless the position of that unit in the parent organization and…

The use of external services in a small research information department

M.A. Simkins

It is part of the responsibility of an information department to decide which of the available external abstracting and indexing services it, and the scientists it serves, should…