Proceedings of the Full Board Meeting (Orleans, France, July 1971).

The 1971 General Assembly and full board meetings of the International Council of Scientific Unions Abstracting Board (ICSU AB) were held in July at Orleans, France. This volume is the published proceedings of those meetings. The first part of the Proceedings is a detailed description of the activities of the Board. The second part records the most recent developments in the activities of the ICSU AB Members, in particular Member Services (the largest Abstracting and Indexing Services all over the world) and Member Unions, in all aspects of scientific and technical information. The third part comprises reports from the most important international organizations active in scientific and technical information. In the fourth part the proceedings of a special session with representatives of primary publications and devoted to the development of closer cooperation between primary and secondary publications are recorded. Finally the fifth part is an outline of another special session which was devoted to an interchange of views about marketing of secondary information services. This publication represents an up-to-data overview of the most recent developments in scientific and technical information worldwide. (Author/SJ)