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The Japan information center of science and technology (JICST): Its organization and function

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  • Takao Fukudome

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The Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST) was established in 1957, with initial funds from the Japanese Government and private industry. The organization now has a full‐time staff of nearly 260 people of which 25 percent consists of subject specialists. In addition, there are more than 2,000 outside cooperators for abstracting and translating. JICST's services include current bibliographic publications, photocopy, current content‐sheet, translation, and literature search. The charges for these services give partial support for the activities of JICST. “JEIPAC” is a special purpose electronic computer designed for JICST's information handling, which was installed in 1961. JICST has been engaged in developing information retrieval systems in several subject areas by using this machine and it is being used in practice for metallurgical literature search. Although JICST is Japan's central organization for the dissemination of scientific and technical information, its services do not cover the fields of the life sciences because of economic limitations. The present services of JICST are mainly concerned with foreign literature relating to the physical sciences.

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  • Takao Fukudome, 1967. "The Japan information center of science and technology (JICST): Its organization and function," American Documentation, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 18(3), pages 146-152, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:amedoc:v:18:y:1967:i:3:p:146-152
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.5090180307
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