Title | Scientific Information Transfer: The Editor's Role [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the First International Conference of Scientific Editors, April 24-29, 1977, Jerusalem / edited by Miriam Balaban |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1978 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9863-6 |
Descript | XXXII, 686 p. online resource |
Editors and the Impact of New Techniques: Mechanization and Organization -- Some Aspects of Data-Recording and Microform Output for Information Distribution -- Editorial Processing Centres: A View from the United Kingdom -- Editorial Processing Centres and International Scientific Journals -- Editing a Photographically Reproduced Journal -- The Dual Journal Concept -- Innovation in the Publication of Lengthy Research Articles -- On-Line Preparation of Typescript -- Discussion -- Primary Publications and Modern Information Systems. Copyright Problems from the Viewpoint of Editors of Scientific Journals -- Discussion -- Librarians' Reactions to Non-Conventional Publishing Methods -- PANEL: Users' Reactions to New Techniques in Scientific Publishing -- Discussion -- Multiple Choice, a Publications Option for a Diverse Science -- The Journal as a Centre for International Communications: The Experience of Current Anthropology -- Discussion -- Flagging and Tagging Scientific Data -- Discussion -- Science, Society and the Editor -- Treatment of 100 Man-Related Scientific Problems: Science as an Indicator of Publications -- Information Transfer and Management in the European Community -- Discussion -- How Editors Catalyze the Publication Explosion -- Logopollution and Ways to Prevent it -- Model of the Growth of Science Illustrates Structural Problem in Scientific Publishing -- Publication-Centred Symposium: An Experiment -- Discussion -- In Defence of Standardized On-Demand Publication -- The Publication Game and the Education of Future Scholars -- Editors' Impact on Science Policies and Politics -- The Editor as Mover or Retarder of Scientific Ideas -- Discussion -- Creators and Gatekeepers โ Authors, Editors, Referees -- Democracy of the Intellect -- The Role of Review Journals in Scientific Publication -- Reports on Progress in Physics -- Discussion -- Refereeing and Judgment -- Editorial Judgment in Scientific Periodicals -- Improving Referee-Selection and Manuscript Evaluation -- Refereeing Reconsidered: An Examination of Unwitting Bias in Scientific Evaluation -- Discussion -- Publication, Innovation and Citation -- Sex and Money -- Discussion -- The Creative Role and Function of Editors -- Discussion -- Can Editing be Quantitated? -- Standards and Style -- A Coherent Philosophy of Titles, Abstracts and Keywords in Scientific Articles -- The CSIRO Style Manual -- Progress with Editerra Editors' Handbook -- The Fourth Edition of the CBE Style Manual -- Style Manuals and Guides for Authors and Editors: Prescriptive or Descriptive? -- On the Preparation of a Reference Manual for Authors and Typists of an International Research Centre -- Style! Why Bother? -- Discussion -- Standardization of Written Information in Science and Technology -- An Editor's View of Standards and Standardization -- Presentation of Numerical Data in the Primary Literature -- Barriers in the Flow of Numerical Data from Primary to Secondary to Tertiary Literature. A Case History -- The CODATA Biologists' Guide for Presentation of Numerical Data -- Four Kinds of Style -- Economics and Organization of Scientific Publishing -- to Morning Session -- The Organization and Economics of Publishing and the Function of the Editor -- Is a Good Editor a Good Publisher? -- Financing Scientific Society Journals in the USA -- Discussion -- The Publication of Scientific Journals in France -- Integrated Science Publishing: An Example from Australia -- Economics and Organization of Scientific Publishing: The ESRC Model Study -- Discussion -- Surviving Inflation? Some Recent Financial Problems of a Specialist Medical Journal -- Editing a Photographically Reproduced Mathematics Journal -- Page Composition Costs of Philosophy Journals: A Report on a Study -- Discussion -- International, National and Special Problems -- to Session: International, National and Regional Problems -- Experiences of the Nordic Publishing Board in Science (NOP) -- Centers for Scientific Publications -- Quantity and Quality in Israeli Science -- EDITEAST (Association of Editors in Science in Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania) and its Role in Scientific Publishing in the Region -- Science Publications in Hong Kong -- Discussion -- Social Sciences -- Functional Differentiation of Social Science Journals -- The Need for a Council of Social Science Editors -- Stability versus Change in Psychological Research. Toward Improved Standards in Psychological Journals -- Discussion -- Agricultural and Development Publications -- The Non-Conventional Literature of Tropical Agricultural Resource Assessment and Development: Its Nature, Sources, Quantity, Value and Accessibility -- A Rational System for Editing and Publishing the Literature of Tropical Agricultural Resource Assessment and Development Planning -- Scientific Editing and Publishing for the Third World: A Review from the Tropical Products Institute -- The International Development Research Centre: Its Unique Role in World Development -- Discussion -- Editor-Secondary Services Interface Developments in Secondary Information Services and Information Transfer -- Developments in Information Transfer -- Information Flow Between Primary Journals and Secondary Services: Report on a Study -- The Past and Future of the Conventional Abstracts Journal -- User Reactions to Secondary Journals -- Discussion -- On the Information Transfer from Primary to Secondary Sources and from Secondary to Primary Sources - An Editing Experiment in an Interdisciplinary Field (Automatic Image Analysis) -- How Services from the Institute for Scientific InformationR (ISIR) Aid Journal Editors and Publishers -- The Difficulties of Preparing the International Serials Catalogue. How Editors Could Help -- Discussion -- History of ASCE Indexing and Abstracting -- A Practical Seminar-Workshop Course in Scientific Writing -- Closing Session: Summary, Recommendations, Resolutions and Future -- Towards and International Federation of Scientific Editors' Associations (IFSEA) -- Closing Session -- Sequel and Preview -- Call for Proposal and Comments -- Towards IFSEA - Organizing Committee and Draft Statutes -- Ciba Foundation Workshop on the Consolidation and Adoption of a Rational System for References - Resulting Suggestions -- List of Participants -- Editors' Associations -- Style Manuals and Guides Exhibited -- Author Index