A Guide to Environmental Information Services of the Private Sector

Kollegger, James G.

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Title

A Guide to Environmental Information Services of the Private Sector

Author(s)

Kollegger, James G.

Issue Date

1972

Keyword(s)

Environmental protection --Information services

Abstract

In Cincinnati in September 1972, at the Environmental Protection Agency's Information Symposium, several thousand participants heard several dozen speakers spend the better part of two days discussing sources of environmental information. I learned at that conference that there is little need to detail the number of sources that exist, and a great need to clarify how those sources can be discovered, evaluated and best used. I will limit my discussion to environmental information services offered by the private sector, and emphasize how others can be found and best used. The discussion will include: 1. The importance of objective setting: defining the kind of information that is needed (and not needed). 2. A candid description of secondary publications such as directories, and environmental abstracting and current awareness services. 3. Use of automated searches and machine-readable data bases. 4. Four appendices are included which cover: environmental directories; environment abstracting and indexing services; information centers and systems services offered; and environmental journals (compiled by Mike Bowen of Environmental Science and Technology).

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (18th : 1972)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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