Institute of scientific information USSR

Abstract

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">Gives an account of the Institute of Scientific Information of the Academy of Sciences of Moscow. Describes (1)the routing of the periodicals from the Accession Section through the Distribution, Language, Bibliography, and Translation Section to the Technical Section; and (2) the working, the staff structure, and the functions of the Departments of Express Information, Translation, Technical Information to certain ministries. Makes suggestions for the improvement of the organization in the Insdoc for the work of translation and abstracting. Stresses the need for translators being given facilities for acquiring knowledge of subjects for translation and subject-specialists meeting periodically for discussion and for the Translation Department maintaining an Index of Technical Terminology.</span>