Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the
History and Heritage of Science Information Systems

Table of Contents

Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgments - Contributors

• History and Historiography of Science Information Systems
  Overview of the History of Science Information Systems - Michael Buckland
  Funding a Revolution - Thomas P. Hughes
  Fax to Facts: Cold Fusion and the History of Science Information - Bruce V. Lewenstein
  Shaping Biomedicine as an Information Science - Timothy Lenoir
  Secret Scientific Communities: Classification and Scientific Communication in the DOE and DoD - Robert W. Seidel
  
  

• Science and Scientific Information Systems
  The Role of the Scientific Paper in Science Information Systems -Bernd Frohmann
  The Game of the Name: Nomenclatural Instability in the History of Botanical Informatics - Geoffrey C. Bowker
  Common Names: Cooperative Access to Databased Natural History Information - Bernadette G. Callery
  The Evolution of the Secondary Literature in Chemistry - Helen Schofield
  The History of Managing Technical Information at DuPont - Florence H. Kvalnes
  
  
• Building Information Retrieval Systems for Science
  Development of an Information Retrieval System Based on Superimposed Coding - James M. Cretsos
  The Evolution of Citation Indexing—From Computer Printout to the Web of Science - Jacqueline Trolley & Jill O’Neill
  The Creation of the Science Citation Index - Paul Wouters
  
  
• Information Retrieval in Science: The Professional Aspects
  Wilhelm Ostwald, the “Brücke” (Bridge), and Connections to Other Bibliographic Activities at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century - Thomas Hapke
  Ralph Shaw and the Rapid Selector - Jana Varlejs
  The Information Wars: Two Cultures and the Conflict in Information Retrieval, 1945–1999 - Mark D. Bowles
  
  
• Information Retrieval in Science: The Technical Aspects
  Examples of Early Nonconventional Technical Information Systems - Madeline M. Henderson
  Microfilm Technology and Information Systems - Susan A. Cady
  Mechanical Indexing: A Personal Remembrance - Herbert Ohlman
  
  
• Science and Information: Some National Perspectives
  Soviet Scientific and Technical Information System: Its Principles, Development, Accomplishments, and Defects - Ruggero Giliarevskii
  The Soviet Overseas Information Empire and the Implications of Its Disintegration - Pamela Spence Richards
  Restoration of Japanese Academic Libraries and Development of Library and Information Science: The Contributions of Shigenori Baba - Takashi Satoh
  
  
• History Reviewed and Revisited
  History Review: The Development of Information Science in the United States - Robert M. Hayes
  On the Shoulders of Giants - Eugene Garfield
  Pioneers’ Reminiscences

Index

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