An International working group in journal cooperation

The possibility exists that primary-secondary cooperation may be more efficient at an international level and between organizations rather than between individual journals or services. Partly to test these hypotheses, the International Council of Scientific Unions Abstracting Board (ICSU/AB) established a Working Group on Cooperation among Editors. It has met regularly with wide international participation. One symposium, sponsored by the Working Group, was held in London in July 1973. The purpose of the discussions has been to improve the services rendered between primary and secondary publications. Among these are provision of statistical and fiscal information, of indexing and abstracting procedures, and of terminology and nomenclature. Primary journal editors can provide proper titles and abstracts early copies, and informed criticism of published abstracts and indexes.