Information retrieval

Abstract

THE NEED for ready access to chemical information is by now generally recognized as common to many different agencies within government as well as to industrial, academic, and other private organizations. A review of techniques available for finding chemical information and of work in progress toward improving and augmenting those techniques will not here be attempted1. This paper concentrates on our work at the National Bureau of Standards and our approach to developing the techniques required for a major chemical information system. Our group seeks to develop the necessary techniques but has no desire to establish or operate a chemical information center. We instead make the results of our work available to those organizations with responsibility for such an operation.