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THE work of the third conference of the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux (A.S.L.I.B.) held recently at Oxford had many points of contact with the world of science, and among the more interesting papers in this connexion was one read by Dr. J. E. de Vos van Steenwijk on the subject of international scientific bibliographies and information bureaux. The author is assistant-chief to the Section of Scientific Relations of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, which acts as a permanent bureau to the International Commission of Intellectual Co-operation set up by the League of Nations. Both the Commission and the Institute are working on the compilation of analytical bibliographies of current scientific literature; physics was the first science to be taken up, economics is now being approached, and the biological sciences are to be considered next. In the last-named subject Dr. de Vos stated that in the United States the publication entitled Biological Abstracts expects to give yearly about 50,000 abstracts derived from 4000 to 5000 periodicals; and by this means it is hoped to save much unnecessary duplication or multiplication.
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Books, Libraries and Languages. Nature 118, 541–543 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118541a0
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