American Institute of Physics. Information Division
AIP Information Division Document Research Project records, 1949-1973.
Reports; memoranda; correspondence; proposals; questionnaires. Primarily reports with accompanying studies and other material documenting the development of a computerized classification scheme and database for physics literature referred to as the Physics Documentation Research Project. Also includes studies of uses of abstracts, review literature, and citations. This project was funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation.
At the end of 1967, the several programs which the American Institutute of Physics operated in the area of physics information, were coordinated under a single Information Division. Funded primarily by the National Science Foundation, this division was responsible for developing the concept of an automated national information system for physics. In 1972, the Information Division joined with the Publications Division to produce, in addition to the primary journals, the information products derived from them in an integrated and more economical operation.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Abstracting.
Information storage and retrieval systems -- Physics.
Physics literature.
Physics -- Information services.
Physics -- Societies, etc.
American Institute of Physics. -- Documentation Research Project.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA