id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12093 Shank, Russell Diffusion of Abstracting and Indexing Services for Government-Sponsored Research (Book Review) 1968-11-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1354 62 49 The important underlying assumptions in Dr. Klempner's research are that the uti- lization of technical information can be ac- celerated and intensified through the pur- poseful exploitation of national documen- tation center abstracting and indexing serv- ices, and that if imaginatively distrib- uted and used, the services can, in effect, act as social instruments capable of pro- Book Reviews / 519 moting national technological, economic and social goals. While Dr. Klempner does not try to prove cause and effect, his findings support pre- viously published evidence that techno- logical innovation and progress in industry seem to center on firms which, among oth- er things, are aware of and sensitive to channels and media for the communication of scientific information. cache/crl-12093.pdf txt/crl-12093.txt