A total publication system for scientific information

As the literature of science has grown and as the editorial and production costs of publications have escalated, it has become mandatory to eliminate the duplication of intellectual effort, and if possible the mechanical effort, which today goes into the preparation and analysis of a scientific document. The primary journal is the true repository of the original scientific and technological data. The secondary service provides access to that originial data; it does not replace it; it is not a surrogate. Experiments to date include the exchange of abstracts, index entries, and uniform bibliographic citations; also, the simultaneous editorial processing of the primary manuscript and the required secondary records. In the latter example, it is possible to produce primary journal indexes automatically from the secondary service database and to plan for one-time keyboarding of specific input data needed by both services. Large computer composition systems developed for the needs of secondary services are now composing primary journals economically.