Conference summary

The final session of the 1973 IEEE Conference on the Future of Scientific and Technical Journals was recorded in its entirety; both the Summary that follows and the open discussion included at the end of this Record are based on that recording. This Summary of the first four sessions of the Conference was compiled and edited by A. F. Spilhaus, Jr., Chairman of Session V, from the summaries of the individual sessions delivered at the Conference by the session chairmen or their designates, and will introduce the reader to the Conference by establishing a framework within which each of the subsequent papers can be placed.