Progress at AWRE in the Development of Mechanised Current Awareness Services

Abstract

Our object is to develop computer aided systems to alert our staff to current literature relevant to their interests. In the last few years a fair proportion of the rapidly growing current scientific and technical literature's bibliographic references have become available on magnetic tapes. Our policy is to exploit these tapes by using information retrieval systems which are available from external sources, have been developed and proven, and are compatible with our computer facilities.

AMCOS Project Stage 2 A Computer Aided Integrated System Using BNB MARC Literature Tapes

“…Upper and lower case operation of the KWOC was achieved with some advice from the program's author, Dr. P.White of IBM. The conversion of the MARC record format to that required by the KWOC, and the manipulation of the program to give a main catalogue entry,were developed on the basis of our experience in handling conversions of INSPEC, NSA and US GRA literature tapes for our mechanised current awareness (SDI) services (22).…”