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1979
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RECON User's BuBletin

9/1

NUARY 1979

CONTENTS

RECON User's Manual Revision

Correction

SPECIFY-FORMAT Command

QUERY Command

Text Search "Stop Words"

From Your RECON Coordinators

New Users

OP User's Manual

" ;cn$

"rectlon

:C I FY-FORMAT

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The NASA/RECON System User's Manual, Complete Ve_slon,

Revision 2, has been undergoing an extensive revision

to provide an up-to-date, more comprehensive reference

for a11NASA/RECON users - NASA Centers, Industrial

AppIicatlons Centers, and NASA Contractors. Originally

scheduled for publication in October 1978, the volume

and extent of the revisions indicate that the earliest

possible publication date will be theend of January 1379.

In the previous Bulletin, Boulder Laboratories was mistakenly

associated with EPA. Boulder Laboratories is affiliated with

NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The SPECIFY-FORMAT command provides NASA/RECON users with

the flexibility to tailor the content and order of citation

data output from the DISPLAY, TYPE, or PRINT commands. The

user can specify the citation fie]ds-of interest that he

desires to display, type, or print, thus omitting the

Irrelevant fields. In large searches, this action wi_1

reduce the volume of overnight printouts (Format _ with the

PRINT command) or the size of a display (Fo,'-_at 5 with the

DISPLAY or TYPE command). SPECIFY-FORMAT designations are

only valid when used with Formats 4 and 5, DISPLAY, TYPE, or

PRINT commands.

ECON operational problemi may by directed to the RECON

_ordlr,ator at the I'_ASA Scicntihc and Technical Information

:cil_y in Bal, imore. Marylar_d. (TelL,phone: (301)o796-5300

-._r,_ _._ ".l "',:_._to- .'9 _- (T¢,',r, hor_ (29:?t-_2" 1_10

ext. 286). Other problems, suggestions and comments rnav be

directedto Norm McCabe (Telephone:(202)-75b-34_5. t_\SA

Headquarters.Code NST- 42. Washington. D. C. 20548
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{ECON User's Bulletin

CIFY-FORMAT Command

,ntinued)

IRY Command

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q

Some words of a_vice for using the SPECIFY-FORMAT command

may be helpful. First, SPECIFY-FORMAT does not reorder the

Items in a set, only the fields within the items. Second,

If you decide to use SPECIFY-FORHAT to format overnight

printout, then check and verify that the desired fields are

Included with a DISPLAY or TYPE command. If, for example,

each of 5 sets in a search is to be printed in a different

format, an END-SEARCH must be used after the PRINT command

Is completed. The desired SPECIFY-FORMAT command must be

entered for the next set and, after the PRINT command is

completed, another END-SEARCH command is used, etc. If

the END-SEARCH command is not used, the last format

specified would apply to all of the 5 sets.

Full details concerning the syntax and usage of SPECIFY-FORMAT

are contained in Chapter 5, NASA/RECON System User's Manual,

Complete Version.

A new capability Is being added to NASA/RECON that enables

users to save search command lists, modify them if desired,

and reexecute them at a later date. This means that similar

or even identical searches may be reexecuted without requiring

reentry of all commands. This capability is supported by the

new QUERY command.

The QUERY command operates in three principle modes:

• The CREATE mode for creating a new search,

• The EDIT mode for modifying a previously created

search, and

The EXECUTE mode for executing a previously created

and stored search or the search currently being

created or modified.

Details concerning the QUERY command, its subcommands, and

modes of operation are too voluminous to be included in this

bulletin. However, complete details are included in the

forthcoming revision of the NASA RECON System User's Manual,

Complete Version.

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:ECON User's Bulletin

t Search "Stop

dsI'

During the creation of indexes for text fields, certain words

were determined to be irrelevant and excluded from the indexes.

Therefore, the use of one of these words in a text SELECT

(single word, phrase, or proximity) will be treated as if it

were not entered.

The "Stop Word" list for text (abstract and title families)

fields in the primary data base is shown be]ow. Sorted

alphabetically by word size, the list contains 187 entries.

Stop Words are considered "insignificant" or 'Sfunction"

words. A search on the expression "Vitamin A" in a title or

abstract wil] yield all documents textual]y indexed by

vltamin only because "A" is a stop word.

S AX/VITAMIN

RECEIVED: S AX/VITAMIN

2 62 92 AX/VITAMIN

ENTER:

S AX/'VITAMIN A'

RECEIVED: S AX/'VITAMIN A'

3 62 92AX/VITAMIN

ENTER:

S UTP/VITAMIN

RECEIVED: S UTP/VITAMIN

4 40 41 UTP/VITAHIN

ENTER:

S UTP/'VITAMIN A'

RECEIVED: S UTP/'VITAMIN A'

5 40 41 UTP/VITAHIN

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Note how the SELECT command ignored the stop word "A".

A HOW HERE BEING BESIDE USUALLY

AN ITS INTO COMES CANNOT WHEREAS

AS NOR MADE COULD COMING WHEREOF

AT NOT MAKE DOING DESIGN WHETHER

BE NOW MORE EVERY DURING ALTHOUGH

BY OFF MOST GIVEN GIVING ARYTHING

CO ONE MUCH GIVES HAVING BIWEEKLY

DO OWN MUST GOING HEREBY BRINGING

E_ PAR NEED MAKES HEREIN PRESENTS

GO PER NOTE NEEDS INDEED REPORTED

HE SAY ONLY OTHER LATELY RESULTED

IF SEE SEEN PRESS LIKELY ACCORDING

IN SHE SHOW QUITE MAKING ADDRESSES

IS SIT SOME SHALL NEEDED AVAILABLE

IT SUB SUCH SHOWN NUMBER BIMONTHLY

ME THE THAN SHOWS OTHERS DESCRIBED

MY TOO THAT THEIR PERIOD PRESENTED

NO USE THEM THERE PATHER RESULTING

OF VIA THEN THESE REALLY SOMETHING

OK _AS THEY TXOSE REPORT THEREFORE

ON WHO THIS TIMES RESULT WHICHEVER

OR WHY THUS TOTAL SHOVED THROUGHOUT

SO YOU TIME UNDER SYSTEM ACCORDINGLY

TO ALSO USED USING ANOTHER ASSOCIATION

UP ASKS USER WHERE AUTHORS FORTHCOMING

US BEEN USES WHICH BECAUSE NEVEPTHELESS

WE CAME VERY WHILE BECOMES AUTHOR-IDENTIFIED

ALL COME WANT WHOSE HOWEVER

AND CORP WELL WOULD PERHAPS

ANY DATA WENT YOURS REPORTS

ARE DEPT WERF ALMOST RESULTS

ASK DOES WHAT ALWAYS SHOWING

BUT DONE WHEN AND/OR SITTING

CAN EACH WHOM AROUND SYSTEMS

DID GAVE WILL ASKING THEREBY

DUE GETS WITH AUTHOR THEREIN

FOR G!VE ABOUT bECAME THEREOF

GET GOES ACAIN BECOME THEREON

_AD GONE ALONG BEFORE THERETO

HAS HAVE ASKED _EHIND THROUGH

The next RECON bulletln will contain the Stop Word list for the NASA

Library Network Books collection.

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RECON User's Bulletin

)m Your RECON

)rdinators

°.

v Users

@ If your terminal is inoperative for more than 5 or

10 minutes, please call the RECON Coordinators for

assistancc.

• Please Inform the RECON Coordinators if you place a

service call for UNIVAC or Bunker-Ramo terminals.

6 Note that the printed search output is now being

produced in t_lc columns on the Xerox 1200. If you

have any comments about the new format, please

contact us.

Three new NASA/RECON users have been added in recent months.

It Is a pleasure to welcome the Goddard Institute for Space

Studies, the NCtional Space Technology Laboratories, and the

Center for Applied Engineering Management at the University

of Misscuri at Rolla.

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I / ISA RECON User's Bulletin

Nahonal A,eror',auttcs and

_pace Admnstrat_on

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

79/2

FEBRUARY 1979

CONTENTS PAGE

SEARCH-EXPRESSION, A New RECON Command 1

Root Search 5

Text Searching Using Numeric Words 5

Library Network "Stop Words" 7

New RECON Fields for the Standard File Collection (D) 10

ASRDI Searching In File Collection D 12

From Your RECON Coordinators 12

SEARCH-EXPRESSION, A

ew RECON Command

A new command has been added to the NASA/RECON System called

SEARCH-EXPRESSION or the SEARCH command. This capability will

increase greatly the ease of using RECON by allowing users to

perform complex searches in one command, using a syntax more

like the English language.

For example, the user can enter the following command:

SEARCH CELESTIAL: AND STARS NOT (SATELLITES OR MOON)

RECON will scan the SEARCH argument and break It down into

simple SELECT commands and a COMBINE command and generate the

following sets:

1 3342 3342 ST/CELESTIAL BODIES

STIAL SPHERE

2 1002 1002 ST/STARS

3 521 521 ST/SATELLITES

ROOT/CELESTIAL

4 1070 1070 ST/MOON

5 130 130 1 AND 2 NOT (3 OR 4)

Included in this bulletin is a description of the SEARCH command

capabilities and a general guide for using the command. A more

complete user's guide will be included in the next update to the

RECON User's Manual.

ST/CELE

RE CON operational problems may by directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Fac,hty in Baltimore. Man/land. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext 286) or Washington. D. C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext. 286) Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington. D. C. 20546
RECON User's Bulletin

SEARCH-EXPRESSION, A

New RECON Command

(Continued)

Command

SEARCH

The SEARCH command is used to create and/or combine one or

more sets, which refer to words, terms, or phrases in the

operand. The operand consists of one or more arguments with

pairs of arguments connected by operators denoting logical

relationships. Searching may be restricted to a specific

field by prefixing a field name to essentially any argument,

The capabilities of the SEARCH command are tabulated below:

Capability

Word, term, number

E, R, or F reference number

Root

Range

Phrase

Logical AND (boolean intersection)

Logical OR (boolean union)

Logica] NOT (boolean negation)

Complex mixtures of all the above capabilities

Following is a table describing the syntax and effect of each

of the SEARCH capabilities listed above:

Operand

fleld name/

term, word, or

number

E, R, or F

reference number

fie]d name/

root:

Effect

Search the specified field

for the term, word, or

number given (default field

If field name/ is omitted).

Search for term(s)

displayed by the last

previous EXPAND (FREQUENCY)

command,

Search the specified field

for all terms or words

beginning with the root

supplied (default field if

field name/ is omitted).
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SEARCH-EXPRESSION, A

New RECON Command

(Continued)

Command

SEARCH (CONT)

Operand

field name/

iteml_item 2

field name/

mphrase =

argument or set

number, logical

operation, argument or set

number, and so

forth

Effect

Search the specified field

(or the default field if

field name/ is omitted)

for all terms, words, or

numbers alphanumerically

between and including the

given terms, words, or

numbers.

Search the specified field

(or the default field if

field name/ is omitted)

for all occurrences of

the given phrase.

Search for all records in

which the specified arguments occur or which are

in the specified sets that

also meet the logical

combination requirements

imposed by the operator(s).

The operand of the SEARCH command is made up of arguments

separated by the logical operators OR, AND, and NOT.

The arguments may be words, terms, phrases, set numbers, or

any valid operand of the SEARCH command. The operend is

limited in length to 63 characters, including b]anks. Each

of the three operators may be expressed in different ways:

OR +

AND *

NOT
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SEARCH-EXPRESS ION, A

New RECON Command

(Cont I nued)

Spaces may be left around the operators or omitted_ as desired.

Parentheses may be used freely for clarity or to force a

desired order of processing. In the absence of parentheses,

logical operators are processed in the following order:

NOT

AND *

OR +

The SEARCH command may use very complex operands in which each

argument itself may be of the form (argument operator argument). Such complex operands are broken down by RECON into

a series of simple SELECT commands, each of which results

in an intermediate set. These intermediate sets are then

operated on as requested to form the final set.

Each argument may consist of any valid SEARCH command operand;

essentially, any combination of forms is permitted. The

complexity is limited only by the following restrictions:

• The operand is limited to 63 characters, Including

blanks;

• A maximum of 10 intermediate sets may be formed; and

• Extreme complexity is likely to lead to errors in

forming and entering the command and understanding

the results.

The sequence in which operators are processed is determined by

their processing priority unless modifled by the user through

parentheses. In the absence of such modification, the order

is the following:

(1) root and range

(2) NOT

(3) AND

OR

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SEARCH-EXPRESSION, A

New RECON Command

(Continued)

Root Search

Text Searching Using

Numeric Words

Operators with the same processing priority are processed

from left to right. If parentheses are used, Innermost

parenthetical expressions are processed first; with a single

set of parentheses, the order given above is followed. For

clarity extremely complex operands should be avoided, but,

if they are necessary, use parentheses.

Certain characters, such as -, : + _ ( ) - & #, the numbers

1 through 99, and certain words (OR, AND, and NOT and RECON

commands), are used in the SEARCH command for special purposes.

If these special characters and/or words are to be used within

an operand as a part of a word, term, or number, the entire

item must be enclosed in double quotes.

Proximity searches are not supported in the initial implementation of SEARCH-EXPRESSION and, therefore, should not be used in

the SEARCH command.

In order to perform range and root searches, a colon (:) must

be used instead of the asterisk (*) In the SELECT command

argument.

Examples:

SELECT HOLECULAR:HOLECULE

SELECT COHPUT:

Numeric t_)rds _' may be textually searched if certain rules are

observed. Decimal points or periods and other special characters,

e.g., slashes and commas, are cast aside by the software. The

expression "1.06 '_ becomes two words: 1 and 06.

Example: Conduct search on 1.06-micron lasers in the abstract

field.

Method 1

ENTER:

S AX/1 *+1 06

RECEIVED: S AX/1 _+1 06

4 324 369 AX/1 4+1 06

This is a proximity search where the word "06" must follow

the word '_1" by one word.
RECON User's Bulletin

Text Searching Using

Numeric Words

(Continued)

Method 2

ENTER:

S AX/tl O6 I

RECEIVED: S AX/Jl 06 =

5 324 369 AX/I *+1 06

This is a search on the word phrase I 06.

Note that the results are the same.

Example: Conduct search on 10.6 micron lasers in the abstract

fleld.

Method 1

ENTER:

S AX/IO *+1 6

RECEIVED: S AX/IO *+1 6

6 605 722 AX/10 *+1 6

Method 2

ENTER:

S AX/'IO 6'

RECEIVED: S AX/=IO 6 =

7 605 722 AX/tO *+1 6

Again, note that the results are the same.

Combining sets 4 and 6, we now have all the documents that

mention both types of lasers in their abstracts.

ENTER:

C 456

RECEIVED: c _$6

8 34 88 4*6

Excerpts from the 17th document in set 8, containing the

highlighting of 1,06 and 10.6, are shown below:

DISPLAY 08/2t!7
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Text Searching Using

Numerlc Words

(Cont i nued)

Library Network

"Stop Words"

78N21461# ISSUE 12 PAGE 1579

0,3 MICROSEC PULSES OF "_ 10.6 "_ HICROMETERS LASER

0.1NS PULSES OF _ 1.06 _-_ _ HICROMETERS

Numeric words may be searched in the titles using the mnemonics

UTP and ATL. Word phrases cannot be searched when using the

all-inclusive commands TX or ATL.

Alphanumeric words may also be searched. References containing

data concerning the PH 6 through PH 6.99 range of acidity

measurements in fluids (specifically the percentage of

hydrogen concentration) may be retrieved by using the

appropriate mnemonics to search the titles or the abstracts,

as follows:

SELECT AX/PH *+1 6

SELECT UTP/PH *+1 6

Searches on D16 and MA21 alloys may be entered:

S AX/D16

S TX/D!6

S UTP/D16

S ATL/D16

S AX/HA21

S TX/HA21

and so forth

The "Stop Word" list for the NALNET Books Flle (File Collection

F) is shown below, sorted alphabetically by word size. The

use of one of these words in a text SELECT (single word,

phrase, or proximity) w111 be treated as if it were not

entered.

Stop Words are considered "insignificant" or "function" words.

Examples of title searching with Stop Words are included at

the end of the list.
RECON User's Bulletin

Library Network

"Stop Words"

(Continued)

Ali single alphabetic characters, A to Z, are included in the

Stop Word family for NALNET books,

AB IX ALL HIH TWO FIVE THEM GIVEN BEFORE WEEKLY

AL LA AND HIS TOO FOUR THEY GIVES BEHIND WHOLLY

AM LE ANY HOW UNA FROM THIS GOING BESIDE WITHIN

AN LO APR III UND FUER THUS JOINT BETTER ACADEMY

AP HA ARE INC UNE GAVE UBER MARCH BRINGS AGAINST

AS ME ASK ITS UNO GETS UPON NINTH CANNOT ALREADY

AT ML AUF JAN VIA GIVE VERY OTHER COMING AMERICA

AZ MY AUG JUL VII GOES VIII PRESS DURING ANOTHER

BE ND BEI JUN VOL GONE WANT QUITE EASILY BECAUSE

BY NO BIO LAS VON HAVE WERE SEVEN EIGHTH BELIEVE

CE OB BUT LES WAS HERS WENT SHALL EITHER BETWEEN

CH OF CAN LOS WHO INTO WHAT SHOWN ELEVEN BESIDES

CO OK DAS LTD WHY JULY WHEN SIXTH FOURTH BROUGHT

CP ON DEC MAC WWW JUNE WHOM TENTH FULFIL CLEARLY

CR OR DEI MAR XII JUST WITH THEIR GIVING DESPITE

CT PH DEN MAY XIV MERE WONT THERE HAVING FIFTEEN

CU PK DER MEV XVI NEAR XIII THESE HEREBY FINALLY

DE PL DES NEW XIX NINE XVII THIRD HEREIN GETTING

DI PT DET NOR YOU NOTE YOUR THREE INDEED HERSELF

DO RE DID NOT ZUR ONCE ABOUT TIMES LATELY HIMSELF

DU SI DIE NOV ALSO ONTO AFTER THOSE LIKELY HOWEVER

ED SO DON NOW ASKS OURS AGAIN TWICE MERELY JANUARY

El SP DUE OCT BEEN OVER ALONG UNDER MYSELF LARGELY

EL ST EEN ONE BEST OWNS APRIL WHERE NEARLY NUMBERS

EN TH EIN OUR BIOG QUES ASKED WHICH NORMAL OCTOBER

ER TO EIT OUT BOOK SAID BEING WHOSE OTHERS PERHAPS

ET TT ENL OWN BOTH SALE BOOKS WOULD OVERLY READILY

FE UN ETC PAR CAME SAYS BRING XVlII OWNING REPORTS

GO UP ETT PER COME SEEN COMES YOURS RATHER SEVENTH

HE US FEB SAT CORP SEES COULD ACCORD REALLY SEVERAL

IA UV FOR SAY DEPT SEPT DOING ALMOST REPORT SITTING

IF Vl FUR SEP DOES SITS DON'% ALWAYS SECOND SIXTEEN

II VS GET SHE DONE SOME EIGHT AROUND SHOULD THEREBY

IL WE GLI SIT EACH SOON EVERY ASKING STATES THEREIN

IN XI HAD SIX EASY SUCH FIFTH AUGUST TWELVE THEREOF

IS XV HAS SUB ELSE THAN FIRST AUTHOR TWENTY THEREON

IT XX HER TEN EVEN THAT FORTH BECAME UNITED THERETO

IV AGO HET THE EVER THEN FULLY BECOME UNLESS THROUGH

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RECON User's Bulletin

Library Network

"Stop Words"

(Conti nued)

TWELFTH EIGHTEEN WHEREVER TWENTIETH

WHEREAS ELEVENTH YOURSELF WHICHEVER

WHEREBY ESPECIAL ACCOMPANY CONGRESSES

WHEREIN FEBRUARY ACCORDING EIGHTEENTH

WHEREOF FOURTEEN ADDRESSES EVERYTHING

WHETHER MOREOVER AFTERWARD FOURTEENTH

WITHOUT NATIONAL BIMONTHLY NINETEENTH

ALTHOUGH N INETEEN F IFTEENTH THEMSELVES

AMER ICAN NOVEMBER OTHERW ISE TH IRTEENTH

ANYTH I NG R ESEARCH SEPTEMBER UN I VERS I TY

APPLYING SOMETIME SEVENTEEN ACCORDINGLY

BIWEEKLY THIRTEEN SIXTEENTH ASSOCIATION

BRINGING WHATEVER SOMETHING FORTHCOMING

DECEMBER WHENEVER THEREFORE SEVENTEENTH

NEVERTHELESS

EXAMPLES

To flnd '_he Economic Report of the President.,,," do not

use the word "report" because it is a stop word. Search on

"economic" and "president" from the title, in that order.

(The +9 means that the two words should be in the same

sentence or title and not restricted by being nlne or fewer

words apart.)

ENTER:

S TTL/ECONOMIC *+9 PRESIDENT

Set 1 14 ]4 TTL/ECONOMIC *+9 PRESIDENT

To find "Paperbound Books in Print...," simply search on

"paperbound". (Books is a stop word.)

ENTER:

S TTL/PAPERBOUND

Set 2 2 2 TTL/PAPERBOUND

To find '%echnica] Report Writing," search on "technical"

and '_riting" - proximity, within two words.

ENTER:

S TTL/TECHNICAL *+2 WRITING

Set 3 37 37 TTL/TECHNICAL *+2 WRITING

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RECON User's Bulletin

Library Network

"Stop Words"

(Continued)

New RECON Fields for

the Standard File

Co] ]ection (D)

CAUTION

A search on a phrase with two or more words, when one of them

is a stop word, can be entered in two different ways - with

different results.

ENTER:

S TTL/SPAPERBOUND BOOKSI

Set 4 2 2 TTL/PAPERBOUND

ENTER:

S TTL/PAPERBOUND *+1 BOOKS

Select TTL/PAPERBOUND *+I BOOKS SEIO4:TERM NOT IN

DICTIONARY

CONSULT the Stop word list and avoid RECON searching similar

to the example immediately above.

The addition of three fields (VOL, OTA, and SUP) to the

standard file collection forced the renumbering of the fields

for use with the SPECIFY-FORMAT command. The following list

contains the updated field numbers, mnemonic codes, and

field names.

STD FILE COLLECTION (IAA, LCAMB, STAR, OSTAR, CSTAR, SSTAR,

OCSTAR, OSTARE, OCSTARE, AOSR, CPA):

No. Cod.___e Field

I ACC

2 FST

3 MUR

4 ISS

5 JAP

6 CAT

7 RN

8 CN

9 PDT

"10 VOL

11 PAG

12 LNG

13 LGN

14 DSC

15 ACL

16 DCF

ACCESSION NUMBER

FINANCIAL SUPPORT TYPE

MICROFICHE

ISSUE NUMBER

JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT PAGE NO.

SUBJECT CATEGORY

REPORT NUMBER

CONTRACT NUMBER

PUBLICATION DATE

NUMBER OF VOLUMES

NUMBER OF PAGES

DOCUMENT LANGUAGE CODE

LANGUAGE NOTE

DOCUMENT SECURITY

ACCESS LEVEL

DCAF NUMBER

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NewRECONFields for

the Standard File

Collection (D)

(Continued)

STD FILE COLLECTION (IAA, LCAMB, STAR, OSTAR, CSTAR, SSTAR,

OCSTAR, OSTARE, OCSTARE, AOSR, CPA) (CONT):

No, Cod..__.ee Field

*17 OTA

18 UTL

19 TXT

20 UNC

21 TLS

22 AU

23 PAN

24 PAA

25 PAT

26 THS

27 CO

28 CSS

29 SCH

30 SAP

31 PRM

*32 SUP

33 POP

34 PUB

35 RPR

36 SPB

37 PRS

38 TRA

39 MCN

40 B IN

41 NOT

42 A IN

43 MJS

44 MNS

45 TRM

46 AN I

47 ANN

48 ABA

49 ABS

50 SUM

51 USE

52 DLN

53 DLT

54 DAC

55 DDT

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

UNCLASSIFIED TITLE

TITLE EXTENSION

UNCLASSIFIED NOTATION OF CONTENT

TITLE SUPPLEMENT

PERSONAL AUTHOR

PERSONAL AUTHOR NOTE

PERSONAL AUTHOR AFFILIATE

PERSONAL AUTHOR TYPE

THESIS NOTE

CORPORATE SOURCE

CORPORATE SOURCE SUPPLEMENTARY

STANDARD NTIS HARDCOPY

SALES AGENCY AND PRICING

PRIMARY NOTE

SUPPLEMENT NOTE

PLACE OF PUBLICATION

PUBLISHER

REPRINT NOTE

SPECIAL PUBLICATION NOTE

PRESENTATION NOTE

TRANSLATION NOTE

MISCELLANEOUS NOTE

64-67 IMPRINT & NOTES

IAA 72 IMPRINT & NOTES

62-63 IMPRINT & NOTES

MAJOR SUBJECT TERMS

MINOR SUBJECT TERMS

DATA TERMS

ANALYTIC ITEM

ANALYTIC NOTE

ABSTRACT AUTHOR

ABSTRACT

DATA SUMMARY

USE STATEMENT

DELETION NOTE

DELETION TYPE

DELETION ACCESSION NO,

DELETION DATE

* New Fields

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ASRDI Searching in

File Collection D

From Your RECON

;oordinators

To search the ASRDI files In File Collection i_,, use the

following RECON codes:

APD Publication Date

ATX All Text

AU Author

RN Report

ATS Thesaurus Term

CO Corporate Source

ABT Broader Term

ANT Narrower Term

ART Related Term

AST Subject Term

AHJ Hajor SubJect Term

AHN Hlnor SubJect Term

ABS Abstract (Text)

LKS Links (Text)

AUF Used for Term

Failure to use these codes will produce incomplete results,

• Currently, an effort is being made by the RECON Coordinators

to update and correct all RECON user information. If there

is a change in address, phone number, or personnel, please

inform the RECON Coordinators. Your cooperation is

appreciated.

Once the PRINT command has been initiated, can anything

be done to cancel it? Yes, if an ENDISEARCH or an ENDSEARCH Bypass has not been performed, print requests

can be canceled by releasing those sets involved in the

PRINT commands. If an END-SEARCH or an END-SEARCH Bypass

has been performed, nothing can be done to counteract the

PRINT command.

The NASA/RECON System User=s Manual, Complete Version,

Revision 2, was distributed during January 1979. If you

have not received your copy or must have additional

copies, please contact Norm McCabe at NASA Headquarters.

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National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

79/3

MARCH 1979

CONTENTS

Simplified Mnemonics

New Mnemonics

Elimination of Redundant Commands

LIMIT ALL Command Modifications

Simplified Format Options for PRINT, TYPE,

BEGIN BYPASS File Collection Option

Releasing Set 99

Superfluous Blanks

Password ID Control

and DISPLAY

Simplified Mnemonics To simplify RECON processing, the command mnemonics have been

restricted to the ones listed below:

B BEGIN E END

BB BEGIN BYPASS EB END BYPASS

C COMBINE F FREQUENCY

CA CANCEL H HELP

CS COMMAND STATUS K KEEP

D DISPLAY L LIMIT

LA LIMIT ALL S SELECT

LR LIMIT RELEASE SE SEARCH

P PAGE SF SPECIFY FORMAT

PR PRINT SO SORT

Q QUERY SS SET STATUS

R RELEASE T TYPE

X EXPAND

Mnemonics not listed above wlll not be valid.

Now there are only two valid mnemonics for each command. These

commands may be entered three ways: (1) the short mnemonic,

RECON operltio_l problemz may by directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore, Maryland, (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext. 286) or Washington. D. C. (Telephone: (202)-621o1910

p

ext. 286). Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone: (202)-755-3465, NASA

Headquarters, Code NST- 42, Washington, D. C. 20546.
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Simplified Mnemonics

(Continued)

New Mnemonics

(2) the command function key, and (3) the full word. When

using the full word to enter commands, the hyphen is no

longer used in two-word commands.

Query subcommands remain the same, and currently stored

queries are not affected by this change.

Several of the mnemonics in the list are new:

BB - BEGIN BYPASS. This executes a begin search

bypass. The nonblank character (e.g., X) after the

command no longer is required. A file collection

parameter is optional with this mnemonic (see the

BEGIN BYPASS File Collection Option on page h

of this bulletin).

• CS - COMMAND STATUS. This permits the user to check

the status of a previously entered command.

• E - END. This performs a full end search.

EB - END BYPASS. This executes an end search bypass.

The nonblank character (e.g., X) after the command no

longer is required.

• F - FREQUENCY. This produces a set term frequency

display from an existing set.

• H - HELP. This causes explanatory text about RECON

topics.

• LR - LIMIT RELEASE. This releases the limitation

previously created from a LIMIT ALL command.

SE - SEARCH. This allows the user to enter multiple

SELECT and COMBINE commands with a single entry.

SS - SET STATUS. This enables the user to verify the

status of his current sets.
RECON User's Bulletin

Elimination of

Redundant Commands

LIMIT ALL Command

Modifications

There were three sets of commands which were duplicates:

(1) the HELP and EXPLAIN commands, (2) the DISPLAY and ITEM

commands, and (3) the SPECIFY FORHAT and FORHAT commands. The

EXPLAIN, ITEM, and FORHAT commands have been replaced. The

HELP command wlll be used for the EXPLAIN command; the DISPLAY

command will be used for the ITEM command; and the SPECIFY

FORMAT command will be used for the FORMAT command.

The LIMIT ALL command no longer requires a diagonal (/) as

the prefix for its parameter string; therefore,

LA /79/N becomes LA 79/N.

A diagonal trailing the LIMIT ALL command parameter no longer

causes an error condition. This previously required the user

to reenter the command. The following entry is now acceptable:

LA 791NI10001-10100/.

Parameters are defaulted by either omitting or inserting

diagonals. Therefore, it is necessary to exercise care when

defaulting parameters.

LA 79 defaults the series and sequence

range parameters.

LA /N defaults the year and sequence range

parameters.

LA //10001-11000 defaults the year and series parameters.

CAUTION:

LA 179 defaults the year and sequence range

parameters, but because of the series

entry, 79, subsequent selections will

result in 'no hit' conditions and/or

null sets. Therefore, the user must

guard against inadvertently using a

preceding diagonal with the year

parameter when using the LIMIT ALL

command.
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Simplified Format

Options for PRINT,

TYPE, and DISPLAY

BEGIN BYPASS File

Collection Option

Releasing Set 99

There are four format options available to the user:

Format 1 - Only the accession numbers. (Unchanged)

Format 2 - Full citation including abstract. (Unchanged)

Format 4 - Citation as specified by the last SPECIFY

FORMAT command. This generates:

• Multiple citations for PRINT and DISPLAY

commands. (New)

• Single citation for TYPE command.

(Unchanged)

Format 6 - Full citation excluding abstract. (New)

NOTE: Format 5 is no longer a valid format.

The user can now change the file collection during a begin

bypass. Previously, a full begin was required to designate

a change in file collections. The file collection parameter,

which is optional, can be either the alpha (D) or numeric

(4) designator for the file collection. If the parameter is

not entered, the user's default file collection is selected.

For example, the following entry causes the alternate data

base to be selected:

BB 7 or BBG.

REMINDER: Previous sets are not retained during a begin or

begin bypass.

Set 99 can now be released without executing a BEGIN or

BEGIN BYPASS command. Release of Set 99 allows its reuse

during the search in progress. The command to release Set

99 is the same as that for releasing any other set:

R 99 or RELEASE 99.

4
RECON User's Bulletin

Superfluous Blanks

Password ID

Control

Inadvertently entering blanks when using the terminal no

longer results in error conditions under certain circumstances. Previously, a blank entered after the command

symbol required the user to reenter the command. Now, the

user who enters a space after pressing a command function

key can continue without concern that the statement _s

Invalid for command syntax reasons. Extra blanks between

the command and the command parameter, as well as between

multiple word terms within the command statement, are now

accepted, and the user need not reenter the statement.

At the same time that the new mnemonics are made available

for general use, a new method of providing security for the

dial-in user's password will be implemented. This method

will eliminate the printing of the user's password on hardcopy. The user will notice when keying his password that it

will not appear on the hardcopy and that the printhead will

remain stationary. When RECEIVED: appears on the printer,

the password will not be printed. If the user feels that a

mistake has been made while keying the password, he can

depress the backspace key until it reaches the starting

point and rekey the password to correct the error. The

following illustrations depict the SIGNON procedure as it

appears on hardcopy now and how it will appear when the new

software is implemented:

Present Signon Procedure

WELCOME TO NASA RECON, PLEASE SIGN ON.

ENTER: SIGNON

RECEIVED: SIGNON

XXXXXXXX

RECEIVED:

PLEASE ENTER USERID:

XXXXXXXX

USERID ACCEPTED.
RECON User's Bulletin

Password ID

Control

(Continued)

Signon Procedure Eliminating Printing of Password

WELCOMETO NASA RECON,

ENTER: SIGNON

RECEIVED: SIGNON

PLEASE SIGN ON.

PLEASE ENTER USERID:

RECEIVED:

USERID ACCEPTED.

6
NASA

Nalional Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

79/4

APRIL 1979

CONTENTS

Report Number Searching

Text Search Information

Online NALNET Books Data Entry

PAGE

1

2

2

Report Number

Searching

Several analysts have noted that not all methods of searching

for a report number on RECON achieve the desired results.

One method with results that may be suspect follows:

SELECT RN/PB-2508/+h SE104: TERM NOT IN DICTIONARY

There are two alternative methods of searching for a report

number that are more likely to find that number. The first of

these two methods is to use the root search as in the following

example:

SELECT RN/PB-2508h_:

1 1 1 RN/PB-2508hJ+/8 RN/PB-2508/_/8

ROOT/PB-2508/_

The second alternative is the following:

EXPAND RN/PB-2508/44

/

The nonexistent report number will be displayed at E06, and

the desired report number will be displayed at E07.

The first method was unsuccessful because it did not contain

the "check" digit that has been added to the six-digit accession

numbers in the PB and AD series. The check digit enables

computer verification of order numbers, thus greatly limiting

the possibility of customers' receiving the wrong documents.

RECON operational problems may by directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore, Maryland, (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext 286) or Washington, D. C. (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext 286) Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST- 42, Washington. D C 20546
RECONUser'sBulletin

Text Search

Information

Recently a Facility analyst concluded that the NASA data base

had nothing on MINISNIFFER, a small remotely piloted sampling

vehicle. Text searches of titles and abstracts yielded

nothing.

A second major attempt to extract something from the NASA data

base was done by searching on HINI-SNIFFER, a two-word phrase.

SELECT AX/'HINI-SNIFFER I

or

AX/IHINI SNIFFER'

or

AX/ MINI _+1 SNIFFER

Each of these variants

resulted in 2 hits

In text searching, some words may be cataloged as one word

or two words, may be hyphenated, or have deviant spellings.

For example, the word I_strapdown'l for Strapdown Inertial Systems

appears in the literature in these variants:

Strapdown

Strap down

Strap-down

Strapped down

Strapped-down

Online NALNET

Books Data Entry

A new capability has been incorporated into the NASA Faciiity°s

online system. This capability, known as the Online NALNET

Books Data Entry System, has been made available to the

libraries so that they may update local holdings data. The

Scientific and Technical Information Branch (STIB) of NASA

will authorize the initial use of this system. Then the RECON

Coordinators will dispense passwords to the authorized users.

The users of the system will be able to start using it as soon

as they receive their password.

NALNET Books online entry may be initiated from any terminal

that is RECON compatible.

Online entry of NALNET Books holdings data compatibility allows

users to add, delete, or replace local holdings data in any

record in the online NALNET Books data base. Each transaction

is validated on entry for having a valid accession number, and

the holdings data is validated, using the NLN record, as being

a valid transaction. A library will be allowed to update

holdings data for itself only. A library may not modify

holdings data for any other library.
RECONUser'sBulletin

\

Online NALNET

Books Data Entry

(Continued)

A RECON user can switch over to the online entry of NALNET

Books holdings data mode by entering the command ./ SELECT NLN

at the terminal. The response will be that the NLN System

was selected, and the password for NALNET update will be

requested. The password signifies the library, allows the

user to sign on, and provides security.

During the keying of update transactions, the user may want

to return to the RECON System for some reason, such as displaying an NLN record. The user can simply enter ./ SELECT RECON,

and the terminal will be returned to the RECON mode. When the

user wishes to return to the NALNET update mode, he enters

./ SELECT NLN, and the terminal returns to the NALNET update

mode ready to accept more data.

USER COMHANDS

The following commands are available to the terminal user:

./ SELECT NLN - This command is used to select the NALNET

Update System.

*PASWORD - This command is used to sign on a terminal for

r updating records for a particular library.

Each library has a different password, and only

the password for the library where the terminal

has been assigned will be accepted.

example: *JOHNSON

*LIST - This command is used to list the update transactions that have been stored for the library

being updated. The screen will be filled with

the update transactions, and if there are more

to be listed, the display will contain the word

"MORE". To continue the listing, the PAGE command

or the letter P can be used. The list option will

be ended when all the transactions have been displayed or when an _END command is given.

_LIST# This command will display the number of update

transactions stored for the given library,

*MORE This command will continue the *LIST command by

dlsplaying the next screen of transactions. This

may be used instead of the PAGE command.
RECONUser'sBulletin

Online NALNET

Books Data Entry

(Continued)

*END - This command will end the *LIST option before all

transactions stored have been displayed.

(PAGE) - The PAGE command can be used to continue the

*LIST option by displaying the next page of data.

This is the same as the *MORE command.

P - The letter P will act as the PAGE command and continue

the list.

*DELETE NN - This command will delete the NNth transaction

stored for the library. NN is the number

printed with the transaction in the *LIST

option.

*STOP - This command turns off a terminal, and the password must be given to sign the terminal back on.

./ SELECT RECON - This command will put the terminal into

the RECON mode.

*OLD - All actions entered after this command will be

processed so they do not appear in the Accession

List products.

*NEW - Reverses the OLD Command. All actions entered

after this command will be processed so that they

appear in the Accession List products.

DATA ENTRY EXAMPLES

A description of the update transactions and the commands

available to a terminal user are described below. All

transactions and commands will apply to the library the user

is signed on to update. For purposes of the examples, assume

Johnson is the library being updated.

• Holdings Update Transaction

The holdings Update transaction can be either to add

or to delete a holding and has the following form:

YYNNNNN*X

where:

YY = Accession year

4
RECON User's Bulletin

Online NALNET

Books Data Entry

(Continued)

NNNNN = Accession sequence number

* = De1 imiter

X = A for add or D for delete

EXAMPLE:

Keyed: 781 OO01 *A

Response: 7810001"A

HOLDING WILL BE ADDED TO RECORD

Local Call Number Update Transaction

Transactions for local call numbers can be adds,

deletes, or replaces. The add and delete transactions

contain one call number, but the replace requires two

call numbers, the number to be replaced and the number

to be added. If a local call number is being added to

a record that doesn't have that library in the holdings

field, then the holdings wi]i also be added to the

record. The formats are as follows.

YYNNNNN*X*CCCCCCCCC

where:

YYNNNNN = Accession number

-,': = del imi ter

X = action code, A for add, D for delete

C = local call number (maximum of 42 characters)

YYNNNNN*R*CCCCCCCC*SSSSSSSS

where:

R = action code for replace

cccccccc = local call number to be replaced

ssssssss = local call number to be added
RECON User's Bulletin _A

Online NALNET

Books Data Entry

(Continued)

EXAMPLES:

Keyed: 7810002*A*SB931.M48

Response: 7810002*A*SB931,M48

CALL # WILL BE ADDED TO RECORD

Keyed: 7810003*D*GC57.571

Response: 7810003*D*GC57.571

CALL # WILL BE DELETED FROM

RECORD

Keyed: 7810004*R*QB401.P71*QB401.P72

Response: 7810004*R*QB401.P71*QB401.P72

CALL # WILL BE REPLACED

• Update of Holdings for Old Books

The addition of holdings data for books that are not

to be announced as new holdings will be accomplished

by prefixing the update transaction with OLD* or by

entering the command *OLD. This will flag the

transaction to indicate that it is to be processed by

the STIMS update procedure that will prevent the book

from being announced as a new holding. Examples are

given below:

Keyed: 0LD*7810001*A

Response: 7810001"A

HOLDING WILL BE ADDED TO RECORD

Keyed: OLD*7810002*A*SB931.M48

Response: 7810002*A*SB931.H48

CALL # & HOLDING WILL BE ADDED TO RECORD

Keyed: *OLD

All entries following this command will be

treated as old holdings until the command

*NEW is entered.

Holding actions entered on a given day will be routinely

applied to the NALNET Books data base overnight,
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Online NALNET

Books Data Entry

(Continued)

NOTE: The system is initially scheduled to be available

during Facility afternoon hours only -- 1300 to 1630.

7
NASA

' :onal Aeronauhcs and

Space Admln_strahon

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

79/5

MAY 1979

Current SESSION

STATUS Command

CONTENTS PAGE

Current SESSION STATUS Command I

Display E Numbers 2

File Collection N 2

Dial-in Disconnect 2

From Your RECON Coordinator 3

Using BRS, Lockheed, and SDC Data Bases 3

A new user-oriented command has been implemented to

assist the RECON user in determining the status of a

particular session. An optional operand, when used

conjunction with the command, will allow the user to

determine the status of a particular aspect of the

session.

There are two acceptable mnemonics for the command:

in

I. CU

2. CURRENT

The optional operands for the command are the following:

DATE D

TIME T

FILE FC

MODE M

SPECIFY FORMAT ,' SF

LIMIT ALL LA

RECON operational problems may by directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext 286) or Washington D C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext. 286). Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington. D. C 20546
RECONUser'sBulletin

Whenever an operand is used, only the information associated with the operand will be transmitted to the user,

and it will appear on the first line of the CRT.

The information will be displayed in the following

manner:

CURRENT SESSION STATUS

DATE .......... MAY 01, 1979

NASA/STIF TIME ..... 09:56

FILE COLLECTION .... N

MODE .......... STANDARD

SPECIFY FORMAT ..... ACC,AU;UTL;ABS

LIMIT ALL ....... 70-79

=isplay E Numbers To further enhance and simplify RECON usage, the

capability to display E and R expand list numbers

and F frequency list numbers has been added to

RECON. This feature allows RECON users to select a

set of accession numbers and to display the first

item in the set with a single display command.

Examples:

Display E no. Display R no. Display F no.

X Energy X Conservation F I

D 53 X El2 D FOO3

D E53 D R2-R3

lie Collection N A new file collection has been added to the RECON

system. This file collection has the designation N.

It is a combination of file collection D and file

collection F. It is available to all users who presently have access to both of those file collections

and wish to search by Thesaurus terms. There will be

no searching across other inverted files. For example, the

author inverted file for file collection D is AU, and the

author inverted file for file collection F is LA. Therefore, searching for an author would require examining both

inverted files.
RECON User's Bulletin

Dial-in Disconnect A warning to all dial-in users: If a dial-in

terminal is inactive for fifteen consecutive

minutes, it will be disconnected from the RECON

system. If the user reconnects with the RECON

system, the user's file collection and set status

will still be in effect. However, the Specify

Format and Limit All data will be deleted. The

dial-in users may use the current SESSION STATUS

command to verify their statements.

:rom Your RECON

]oordinator

The RECON coordinators are requesting your assistance

in an effort to document the reliability of llnivac

and Modem equipment. Before making a call to the

vendor, please report all equipment difficulties

to the RECOil coordinator. Also, please have the

engineer who responds to the service request call

the RECON coordinator when the service is completed.

Thank you for your cooperation.

We would like to welcome Scott Brittian as our new RECON

Coordinator. He is replacing Karen Minnlck, who has

transferred to the computer programming area here at the

Facility. Scott will work with Mike Moriarity in providing

assistance to the RECON community.

Jsing BRS, Lockheed,

and SDC Data Bases

The NASA Facility is authorized to provide BRS, Lockheed, and

SDC search service to NASA Headquarters and NASA Centers for the

remainder of 1979. The library of the requesting organization

should continue to submit requests to the Facility rAttn:

Retrieval). Search by subject (or other criteria) may be made

against the data bases included in the appended BRS/Lockheed/

SDC Data Base Listing. The Facility wi11 search the most

appropriate data bases consistent with the subject scope of

the search. Attached is an update of the searchable online data

bases, excluding the New York Times Information Bank.

OF POOR Q:JAtJTY
DATA BASE NAME

ONLINE DATA BASES (B = BRS, L " Lockheedr S = SDCI*

SUBJECT AND SCOPE VEN DOR COVERAGE

(ENTRY YEAR

TO PRESENT)

UPDATE

FREQ' Y

_CCOUNTANTS INDEX

AGRICOLA

International coverage of the literature related to accounting,

auditing, taxation, data processing, investments, and management.

Prepared by the American Institute

of Certified Public Accountants.

Provides worldwide coverage of

agrlcuIture using the centralized

agricultural bibliographic data

system covering CAIN (Cataloging

and Indexing), AGECON (Agricultural Economics), FNIC (Food and

Nutrition Information Center),

and AGRICULTURE CANADA. Prepared

by Technical Information Systems,

Science and Education Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

B

L

S

AIM/ARM Abstracts of instructional and L

research materials in vocational

and technical education. Prepared by the Center for Vocational Education.

_tERICA: HISTORY Covers U.S. and Canadian history, L

_ND LIFE area studies, and current affairs.

Prepared by American Bibliographical Center (ABC-Clio, Inc.).

_PTIC Air quality and air pollution L

prevention and control. Includes

Air Pollution Abstracts. Prepared

by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

kRT MODERN Covers publications in the field L

of modern art and design in the

period of 1800 to the present.

Prepared by American Bibliographical Center (ABC-CIio, Inc.).

1974

Jan 1970

1967 thru

1976.

From 1977

included in

ERIC.

Jan 1964

Jan 1966

Jan 1974

Quarterly

Monthly

Month ly

Monthly

Closed

Quarterly

Closed

Semiannual

:_Extracted and updated from the Bulletin of the American

Society for Information Science, Vol. 3, No. 5 (June 1977).
DATA BASE NAME SUBJECT AND SCOPE V EN DOR CO VERAGE

(ENTRY YEAR

TO PRESENT)

UPDATE

FREQ' Y

_SFA Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) is a comprehensive

data base on life sciences of the

seas and inland waters as well as

related legal, political, and

social topics. Prepared by the

Food and Agricultural Organization

and UNESCO.

Governmental statistical publications, based on the American

Statistics Index. Electronic

maildrop of documents in this

file is available from Congressional Information Service.

Prepared by Congressional Information Service, Inc.

Jan 1975

Jan 1973

Monthly

Monthly

Monthly

BIOCODES

310SIS (PREVIEWS)

:A PATENT

:ONCORDANCE

AB ABSTRACTS

Contains a listing of

taxonomic and category

codes in a dictionary-type,

nonbibliographic file.

Includes common names,

codes, synonyms, and related

codes. Prepared by Biological Sciences Information

Service.

Includes the contents of

Biological Abstracts and

BioResearch Index covering

all the life sciences.

Prepared by Biological

Sciences Information Service.

Correlates chemical patents

issued by different countries

for the same basic invention.

Prepared by Lockheed Information Systems and Chemical

Abstracts Service.

Comprehensive file of agricultural and biological

information containing all

records in the journals

published by Commonwealth

Agricultural Bureaux.

Prepared by the Commonwealth

Agricultural Bureaux.

Monthly

Monthly

Monthly

Index: Monthly

Abstract: BIweekly

Jan 1972 Sereiannual

Jan 1973 Monthly

' ""_""" ': " ' "IS

OF PO_:i.,_hi,,,, ,
)ATA BASE NAME SUBJECT AND SCOPE VENDOR COVERAGE

(ENTRY YEAR

TO PRESENT)

UPDATE

FREQIY

DA (CDI}

H" SON/CASIA

HEMDEX

Canadian business periodicals

index provides information on

business and industry in

Canada. Prepared by Information

Access, Inc., and Micromedia

Limited.

Comprehensive Dissertation

Abstracts provi_es

coverage of doctoral

dissertations from accredited American universities

and most Canadian universities. Electronic maildrop

of documents in this file is

available from University

Microfilms International

through SDC (S) only. Prepared by Universtiy Microfilms International.

Provides worldwide coverage

of the chemical sciences

literature, including patents,

books, reference proceedings and

government research reports.

Coverage corresponds to the

printed Chemical Abstracts

Condensates. From 1972 onwards,

the Chemcon files in L and

S are integrated with the

CASIA files. CA Subject Index

Alert (CASlA) provides additional

index entries for the documents

abstracted in Chemical Abstracts.

Prepared by Chemical Abstracts Service.

Chemical dictionary file, covering

all compounds cited in the

literature. May be searched by chemical name, by molecular formula, or

by group or row within the periodic

chart. Prepared by Chemical Abstracts Service.

1975

1861

Jan 1970

1972

Monthly

Monthly

Monthly

Monthly

Monthly

Biweekly

Biweekly

Quarterly
)ATA BASE NAME SUBJECT AND SCOPE VENDOR COVERAGE

(ENTRY YEAR

TO PRESENT 1

UPDATE

FREQIY

HEMNAME Contains a listing of chemical

substances in a dictionary-type,

nonbibliographic file. CAS

Registry Numbers, CA Index names,

molecular formulas, and synonyms

are listed. Prepared by Chemical

Abstracts Service and Lockheed

Information Systems.

1972 IrregUler

:HILD ABUSE

_ND NEGLECT

English language material and

research on child abuse and

neglect. Includes conference

proceedings, bibliographic

references, ongoing research,

and service program listings.

Prepared by the National Center

on Child Abuse and Neglect.

Chemical Industry Notes, containing citations to the

business literature in the

chemical industry. Prepared

by Chemical Abstracts Service.

1965.

1974

Annual 1y

Monthly

Weekly

:LAIMS

:LAIMS/CLASS

General, chemical, electrical, and

mechanical U.S. patents plus some

foreign equivalents. The previous

files CLAIMS/CHEM and CLAIMS/GEM

have been reorganized into two

files, divided by date. The new

fi!es are called CLAIMS/CHEM and

CLAIMS/U.S. PATENTS. Prepared by

IFl/Plenum Data Company.

Classification code and title

dictionary covering all classes and

selected subclasses of the U.S.

patent classification system.

Prepared by IFl/Plenum Data Company.

L

CLAIMS/CHEM:

1950 to 1970

(closed file).

CLAIMS/U.S.

PATENTS: 1971

to present.

Jan 1977

t4onthl y

Irregular

ORI(_:'.".L _ _:.CE IS

OF PC:LA QL;ALITY
)ATA BASE NAME SUBJECT AND SCOPE VENDOR COVERAGE

(ENTRY YEAR

TO PRESENT)

UPDATE

FREQ'Y

The Canadian News Index data base

provides a comprehensive index to

Canadian news-related information.

Articles from five major Canadian

dailies are indexed: Montreal Star,

Toronto Globe and Mail, Toronto Star,

Vancouver Sun, and Winnipeg Free

Press. Prepared by Information

Access, Inc.

Jan 1977 Monthly

]OMPENDEX

CONFERENCE

PAPERS INDEX

CRECORD

The computerized Engineering

Index data base covering

engineering literature.

Prepared by Engineering Index,

Inc.

Lists approximately 1,000

scientific and technical meetings

held worldwide each year and the

100,000 papers presented at them.

Prepared by Data Courier, Inc.

Provides comprehensive, highly

current coverage of the

Congressional Record. Prepared

by Capitol Services, Inc.

Jan 1970

1973

1976

Monthly

r_nthly

Monthly

Monthl y

Monthly

Weekly

DATA BASE

INDEX (DBI)

DBI is a master index to a11

ORBIT data bases and contains all

word terms from each file's

basic index. When a term is

entered, a ranked listing of all

data bases in which the term

occurs is retrieved. Boolean

operators can also be used.

Subdivided into four categories:

Science and Technology

Social Sciences and Humanities

Business and Economics

Multidisciplinary

S Monthly
)ATABASENAME SUBJECTANDSCOPE VENDOR COVERAGE

(ENTRY YEAR

TO PRESENT)

UPDATE

FREQ' Y

)EFENSE MARKET

_EASURES SYSTEM

)ISCLOSURE

_NERGYLINE

;NVIROLINE

NVIRONMENTAL

MPACT STATEMENTS

Covers U.S. Government contract

awards, request-for-proposals,

R&D sources sought, etc. Includes aircraft, communications,

data processing, management

services, and basic research.

Includes receiving contractor,

awarding agency, and dollar amount

of contract. Prepared by Frost &

Sullivan, Inc.

One of the primary information

sources on American business,

DISCLOSURE covers announcements

of financial reports filed with

the Securities and Exchange

Commission (SEC) of over 11,000

public companies. Prepared by

Disclosure, Inc.

Covers energy economics,

including U.S. policy and

planning, resources and

reserves, and environmental

impact. Prepared by Environment Information Center, Inc.

Covers the world's environmental

information, with an interdlsciplinary approach. Prepared

by Environment Information

Center, Inc.

Abstracts of environmental impact

statements, which are required of

federal agencies under section 102

of the National Environmental

Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). These

statements weigh and describe the

developmental benefits as opposed to

the adverse environmental effects of

projects funded by, or impinging on

the mandates of the Federal

Government. Prepared by Information

Resources Press.

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_DUCATION

:ESOURCES

:_CERP_A

IX ;PTA

_EDICA

EPB provides current access to the

contents of periodicals dealing with

the environment, such as water

pollution, health hazards, or

urban planning. Prepared by the

Environmental Studies Institute.

Complete data base on research and

journals in the field of education,

including Current Index to Journals

in Education and Research in

Education. Electronic maildrop

through SDC is available for ClJE

documents from University Microfilms

International; for RIE documents

from ERIC. Prepared by Educational

Resources Information Center.

ECER covers literature dealing with

education of handicapped and gifted

children. Prepared by the Council

for Exceptional Children.

Worldwide research literature in the

medical sciences, with an extremely

detailed indexing system. Corresponds to the printed Excerpta

Medica. Prepared by Excerpta

Medica Foundation.

L Jan 1974

1966 for

RIE records.

1969 for

ClJE records.

Jan 1966

Jan 1975

Bimonthly

Monthly

Monthly

Monthly

Monthl y

Quarterly

Weekly

fEDERAL REGISTER The content of this file corresponds to the Federal Register

and covers rules and regulations

by the Federal Government on a

wide range of subjects. Prepared

by Capitol Services, Inc.

March 25, 1977 Monthly

OODS ADLIBRA Information references to food

industry developments, food products, food marketing, and significant research and technological advances. Prepared by K & M

Publications, Inc.

L 1974 Monthly

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OUNDATION CENTER

ATIONAL DATA BASE

8 ED

OUNDATION

IRECTORY

3UNDATION

RANTS INDEX

s FSTA

"OARC H I VE

"OREF

The 'lational Foundation file

provides recent data on all the

American private foundations

which award grants for charitable

purposes. This file overlaps and

supplements the FOUNDATION DIRECTORY, where more complete information on the larger foundations is

available. Prepared by the Fountion Center.

Descriptions of over 2,500 foundations with assets exceeding

SI million. Prepared by the

Foundation Center.

Information on grants awarded by

more than 400 major American

philanthropic foundations. Prepared by the Foundation Center.

Covers literature related to

all human food commodities and

aspects of food processing except the production of raw foods.

Corresponds to the printed Food

Science and Technology Abstracts.

Prepared by International Food

Information Service.

Information on the geosciences,

including geology, mineralogy,

energy sources, and oceanology.

Prepared by Geosystems.

Geological reference file, covering geosciences literature. Includes citations from Bibliography

and Index of Geology.

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data

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data

Jan 1973

1969

1966

1961

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annual 1y

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CATALOG

GRANTS

HISTORICAL

ABSTRACTS

INFORM

INSPEC

INTERNATIONAL

ECONOMIC

_BSTRACTS

Index of public documents generated by the U.S. Federal

Government; corresponds

to the hard copy Monthly Catalo 8

of United States Government

Publications. Thls covers

congressional documents as well

as documents from various other

government agencies and their

departments. Prepared by the

U.S. Government Printing Office.

Covers grant programs offered by

federal, state, and local governments, commercial organizations and

associations, and private foundations. Prepared by the Oryx

Press.

Abstracts of the world's periodical literature in history and

the related social sciences and

humanities. Prepared by

American Bibliographical Center

(ABC-CIio, Inc.).

Covers information in the areas of

business management and administration, accounting, advertising, and

banking. All phases of management

and administration are covered by

the data base. Prepared by Data

Courier, Inc.

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Worldwide coverage of physics, B

electrical engineering, computer L

science, and control engineering. S

Corresponds to Physics Abstracts,

Electrical and Electronic Abstracts,

and Computer and Control Abstracts.

Prepared by the Institution of

Electrical Engineers.

Covers business and economics literature from the abstract journal

Economic Titles. Prepared by the

Dutch Ministry for Economic Affairs.

July 1976

Currently

available

grants

1973

Aug 1971

Jan 1969

1974

Monthly

Monthly

Quarterly

Monthly

Monthly

Monthly

Monthly

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Monthly

Monthly

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PHARMACEUTICAL

ABSTRACTS

ISI ELECTRONIC

MAILDROP

ISMEC

LABORDOC

IPA covers information on the

pharmaceutical profession and the

development and use of drugs.

Prepared by the American Society

of Hospital Pharmacists.

Electronic maiidrop for journal

articles from the more than

5,200 journals in SCISEARCH and

SOCIAL SCISEARCH is available

through SDC (ORBIT) from the

Institute for Scientific

Information.

Information service in mechanical

engineering and engineering management. Prepared by Data Courier,

Inc.

Citations from the International

Labour Organization's major

publications, books, selected

articles, conference reports,

and technical documents. Covers

industrial relations, economic

and social development, management,

occupational safety, labor mobility,

vocational training, and other

related fields in industry. Prepared by the International Labour

Organization.

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Monthly

_ANGUAGE ABS

IBCON

Provides current selective

access to the world's literature

on language and language behavior.

Prepared by Sociological Abstracts,

Inc.

Provides extensive coverage of the

monographic literature and some

nonprint materials catalogued by

the U.S. Library of Congress.

Includes MARC records. Covers

English, French, German, Portuguese,

and Spanish literature, and MET

(maln/entry/title) records of all

Roman-alphabet languages and

transliterated items. Prepared by

3-M Corporation.

1973

1968 for

MARC records.

1969 for

MET records.

Quarterly

Weekly

10 OR!_I[.,_AL .-rr_?..-- IS

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IAGAZINE INDEX

ANAGEMENT

CONTENTS)

ETADEX

LA BIBLIOGRAPHY

Coverage of some 370 popular

American magazines. Provides

information on general interest

topics, including current

affairs, consumer product

evaluation, sports and recreation,

business, environment, and science

and technology. Includes all

magazines covered by Reader's

Guide. Prepared by Information

Access, Inc.

Coverage of the business literature gathered from both U.S.

and non-U.S, journals. Corresponds to Management Contents.

Electronic maildrop for articles

in this file is available through

SDC from FIND/SVP. Prepared by

Management Information Service.

Worldwide metallurgical literature,

including Metals Abstracts Index

and Alloys Index. Prepared by the

American Society for Metals.

Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts provides current

citations for the most important

meteorological and geoastrophysical

research published in both foreign

and domestic literature. Prepared

by the American Meteorological

Society and the National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration.

Corresponds to the printed

journal of the Modern Language

Association entitled MLA International Bibliography of Books

and Articles on the Modern

Languages and Literatures. Covers

current scholarship in the modern

languages and literature, folklore,

and linguistics. Prepared by the

Modern Language Association of

America.

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1976

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IAL SERIALS

fEWSPAPER INDEX

ICEM

ICSEM/NIMIS

TIS

Maritime Research Information

Service covers maritime research,

including cold weather regions,

cargo, ships, materials, navigation, safety, and harbors. Provides access to agency maritime

reports, approximately 100

periodicals containing maritime

articles, and other maritime

information sources. Access is

limited to users in the U.S. and

Canada. Prepared by the Maritime

Research Information Service.

Listing of all serial records of

the National Agricultural Library.

Prepared by the U.S. Department

of Agriculture Science and Education

Administration, Technical Information Systems.

Index of relevant topics, editorials,

bibliography of reviews on films,

books, and other forms of entertainment, and biographical information

from the following newspapers:

the San Francisco Chronicle, the

Detroit News, the Chicago Tribune,

the Los Angeles Times, the Houston

Post, the Times-Picayune, and the

Washington Post. Prepared by Bell

& Howell.

Provides comprehensive coverage of

nonprint educational material.

Prepared by the National Information Center for Special Educational Materials.

Lists information on audio-visual,

print and braille materials,

equipment, and adaptive devices

related to all educational levels

of the handicapped, but primarily

to children. Prepared by

National Information Center for

Special Education Materials.

Cross-disciplinary file of citations to U.S. government-sponsored research technical reports.

Includes analyses prepared by

federal agencies, their contractors or grantees, and nonclassified

DOD reports. Electronic maildrop

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Monthly

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Biweekly

Biweekly

Biweekly
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(ENTRY YEAR

TO PRESENT 1

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NTIS (CONT)

OCEANIC

(ABSTRACTS)

_AIS

INTERNATIONAL)

'APERCHEM

/E NEWS

ZSTDOC

for documents in this file is available through SDC from NTIS. Prepared by National Technical Information Service.

Worldwide technical literature of

oceanography and marine-related

subjects. Includes journal

articles, conference proceedings,

and government publications.

Prepared by National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration and Data

Courier, Inc.

International coverage of public

affairs literature. Includes

Foreign Language Index and PAlS

Bulletin. Prepared by Public

Affairs Information Service, Inc.

Covers the scientific and technical

literature, including patents of

the pulp-, paper-, and board-manufacturing and utilizing industries,

gathered from all industrialized

countries. Prepared by the

Institute of Paper Chemistry.

Covers publications in the petroleum and energy fields. Journals

covered are: Oil and Gas Journal,

Oil Daily, Platt's Oilgram News

Service, Petroleum Intelligence

Weekly, Middle East Economic

Survey, The Petroleum Economist,

and National Petroleum News.

Prepared by the American Petroleum

Institute.

Journal literature in agricultural

chemicals and pesticides. Access

granted to subscribers only.

Prepared by Derwent Publications,

Ltd.

Covers information from the paper

and printing industry. Lists

abstracts from Management and

Marketing Abstracts, Packaging

Abstracts, Printing Abstracts,

and Paper and Board Abstracts.

Prepared by the Research Association for the Paper and Board,

Printing, and Packaging Industries,

Ltd.

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1972 for

Foreign

Language

Index

Jan 1968

Jan 1975

1964

1975

OF PCO_ QbALII'Y

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Monthly

Weekl y

Monthly

Monthly
DATA BASE NAME SUBJECT AND SCOPE VENDOR COVERAGE

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_OLLUT"IC_

C JTION

'A_ STRACTS)

)REDICASTS

)OMESTIC

;TATISTICS

'REDICASTS EIS

ONMANUFACTURING

STABLISMMENTS

Pharmaceutical News Index provides

the indexing service for the food,

drug, and cosmetic family of

pharmaceutical industry special

publications.

Covers:

FDC Reports (The Pink

Sheet)

Drug Research Reports

(The Blue Sheet)

Medical Devices, Diagnostic & Instrumentation

Reports (The Gray Sheet)

Weekly Pharmacy Reports,

(The Green Sheet)

TUality Control Reports

he Gold Sheet)

PMA Newsletter (from 12/

75 to 11/77)

Washington Drug and

Device Letter (from 12/

75 to 11/77).

Prepared by Data Courier, Inc.

Corresponds to the printed

Pollution Abstracts. Covers

environmentally related literature on pollution, its sources,

and its control. Prepared by

Data Courier, Inc.

Abstracts of all significant

information on industry and

product statistics, government and services statistics, and

social economic statistics for U.S.

Different price structure for

subscribers and nonsubscribers.

File is divided into three parts:

U.S. Statistical Abstracts

U.S. Annual Time Series

U.S. Regional Time Series.

Prepared by _redicasts, Inc.

Lists nonmanufacturers, employing

20 or more people in the business

sector of the economy. Banking

and the nonprofit sectors were

added in the latter part of 1978.

Companion file to PREDICASTS EIS

PLANTS. Prepared by Predicasts,

Inc., and Economic Information

Systems, Inc.

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'L_NT_

REDICASTS F&S

NDEXES

FUNK & SCOTT)

REDICASTS FEDERAL

NDEX

'EDICASTS FEDERAL

_DEX WEEKLY

.EDICASTS

TERNATIONAL

ATISTICS

Current information on some

117,000 industrial plants in the

U.S., operated by 67,000 firms

with current annual sales of

more than $500,000, accounting

for 9(7/o of the total U.S. industrial activity. Prepared

by Economic Information Systems,

Inc., and Predicasts, Inc.

Covers both domestic and international company, product, and

industry information. Different

price structure for subscribers

and nonsubscribers. Prepared by

Predicasts, Inc.

Covers U.S. government activity

from the Congresslonal Record,

Federal Reqister, Commerce

Business Daily, Presidential

Documents, and the Washington

Post with citations to the Code

of Federal Regulations, the

United States Code, and congressional bills. Prepared by

Predicasts, Inc.

This file contains the same kind

of records from the same sources

as Predicasts Federal Index.

Contains up to four weekly updates.

Time series and forcasts on foreign

economics, demographies,

finance, and production. Different

price structure for subscribers

and nonsubscribers. File is

divided in two parts:

International Statistical

Abstracts

International Annual Time

Series.

Prepared by Predicasts, Inc.

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Oct 1976

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month

1972

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_EDICASTS

rERVIEW OF

_RKETS AND

!CHNOLOGY

Worldwide coverage of Chemical

Market Abstracts (CMA) and

Equipment Market Abstracts (EMA).

Different price structure for

subscribers and nonsubscribers.

Prepared by Predicasts, Inc.

1972 Monthly

Monthly

:EDICASTS WEEKLY

SYCH ABSTRACTS

UEBEC

CTUALITE

Weekly current awareness for

Predicasts Overview of Markets

and Technology and Predicasts

F&S Indexes. Prepared by

Predicasts, Inc.

Worldwide coverage of psychology

and other behavioral sciences.

Prepared by the American

Psychological Association, Inc.

Contains citations and abstracts

of three Quebec newspapers:

Le Devoir, La Presse, and Le

Soleil. This data base is

entirely in French. Different

price structure for subscribers

and nonsubscribers. Prepared

by Microfor, Inc.

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1967

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Monthly

Monthly

Monthly

Monthly

INGDOC

AE AR_TRAKT_

Worldwide extensive coverage of the

pharmaceutical literature. Access

granted to subscribers only.

Prepared by Derwent Publications,

Ltd.

Covers papers given at Society of

Automotive Engineers meetings or

conferences, concerning selfpropelled vehicles; applicable

to the aerospace, transportation,

and automotive industries. Electronic maildrop for documents in

this file is available through

SDC from the Society of Automotive

Engineers. Prepared by the Society

of Automotive Engineers, Inc.

S .July 1964 Monthly

S Jan 1965 Quarterly

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SAFETY SCIENCE

ABSTRACTS

SCISEARCH

;OLIAL SCISEARCH

OCIOLOGICAL

BSTRACTS

PIN

Includes the science of safety,

covering events or phenomena

which threaten mankind, his

environment or technology.

Citations are gathered from

book reviews, financial news,

government affairs, new product

news, and patents. Prepared by

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,

Inc.

Multidisciplinary index to the

literature of science and technology, including medicine. Contains all the records published in

Science Citation Index. Can be

searched by authorlFr-s-_ited

references. Electronic maildrop

of articles in SCISEARCH is

available through SDC (ORBIT)

from Institute for Scientific

Information. Prepared by the

Institute for Scientific Information.

Covers sociology and related

social science areas contained

in Social Rcience Citation

Index. Can be searched by author's

cited references. Electronic

maildrop available of articles in

SOCIAL SCISEARCH through SDC from

Institute for Scientific Information. Prepared by the Institute for Scientific information.

Covers literature in sociology

=nd related disciplines in the

social and behavioral sciences.

Prepared by Sociological

Abstracts, Inc.

Searchable Physics Information

Notices covers all major areas

of physics from major American

and Russian physics and astronomy journals. Includes

journal articles and conference

proceedings published by the

American Institute of Physics

and its member societies. Prepared by the American Institute

of Physics.

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1963

1975

ORIG!r'IAL F/"-,£ iS

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Monthly

5 times

_nnually

Monthly
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,ESEARCH)

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SCA 1977

ANDIDATE LIST

U L SA

.S. POLITICAL

CIENCE DOCUMENTS

SDA/CRIS

Covers research in progress and

recently completed research in

a wide variety of disciplines,

especially research sponsored by

the Federal Government. Prepared

by the Smithsonian Science Information Exchange, Inc.

Covers a broad range of topics

relating to the textile industry,

and designed to be useful to

textile managers, engineers, and

technicians. Many citations and

abstracts are in French. Prepared by the Instltut Textile

de France.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Candidate List lists chemical

substances identified and compiled

by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as an aid to reporting under provisions of the

Toxic Substances Control Act.

Closed file. Prepared by the

U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency and Chemical Abstracts

Service.

Covers worldwide literature and

patents related to oil and natural

gas exploration. Corresponds in

coverage to Petroleum Abstracts.

Access to subscribers only.

Prepared by the University of

Tulsa.

Provides significant research

results in the political, social,

and policy sciences, from approximately 120 major American journals

publishing scholarly articles in

the broad area of political science.

Prepared by the University of

Pittsburgh, University Center for

International Studies.

Current Research Information

S__ystem covers current research in

agriculture and related areas.

Prepared by Cooperative Research,

USDA Science and Education Administration.

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Jan 1970

July 1974

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1975

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OF P Sit :_

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Monthly

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Quarterly

Monthly

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3ATABASENAME SUBJECTANDSCOPE VENDOR COVERAGE

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FREQ'Y

• RLD ALUMINUM

_BSTRACTS

• RLD TEXTILES

IPI (PATENTS)

Provides coverage of the world's

technical literature on aluminum.

Prepared by the American Society

for Metals.

Periodical and monograph literature,

as well as patents on the textile

industry. Prepared by the Shirley

Institute, England.

Comprehensive and authoritative

World Patent Index file contains

documents relating to patent

specifications issued by the Patent

Offices of the major industrial

nations. Corresponds in coverage

to Central Patents Index and the

World Patent Index. Prepared by

Derwent Publications, Ltd.

1968

1970

Variable by

subject

matter,

from 1963

Monthly

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Monthly

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N/ A

Nahonal Aeronauhcs and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

79/6

JUNE1979

CONTENTS

FREQUENCY Command Modification

Reminder

Dial-in User's Set Save

Thesaurus Terms

PAGE

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FREQUENCY Command

Modification

Software changes have been made to allow continuous

paging of a FREQUENCY display following a SELECT command.

Previously, the FREQUENCY command had to be executed

again in order to proceed to the next page. Now, after

a SELECT command, the PAGE command will cause the next page

of the frequency distribution to be displayed.

Reminder The NALNET Books Data Entry System is online as of May 22,

1979. NASA libraries may now update local holdings data

from any terminal that is RECON compatible. For further

information refer to the 79/4 NASA/RECON User's Bulletin.

Dial-in User's

Set Save

A new field, Set Save, has been added to the dial-in user's

Begin Search Questionnaire. This field, which has been

available on the UTS 400 terminals, will enable the user to

save the sets created in a previous search. Due to the

obvious problems associated with inverted files from

different file collections, users will not be able to change

file collections when saving sets.

Thesaurus Terms Among the reference aids regularly distributed by the NASA

Scientific and Technical Information Facility are the Monthly

Update of NASA Thesaurus Terms and the Six-Month Cumulative

Listing of NASA Thesaurus Term Changes. If these are not

coming to your RECON terminal and you would like to be

placed on the distribution list, please contact Norm McCabe.

RECON operational problems may by directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland, (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext 286) or Washington. D C (Telephone (202)-621-1910

ext. 286). Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST- 42, Washington. D C 20546
N/ A

N;_honal Aeronaubcs and

Space Adm_n_strahon

Scientific and Technical

I nformation Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

79/7

JlJtY 1979

CONTENTS

Notes on the DISPLAY and PAGE Commands

Change Your Mind?

From Your RECON Coordinator

PAGE

1

2

3

Notes on the DISPLAY

and PAGE Commands

The loss of sequential display in FORMAT 2 (intentionally or

unintentionally) will occur from time to time. To recover

from a display interruption on either a dlal-in terminal or

a UTS 400 terminal, use the procedure outlined in the following example:

Assume that Set I (50 items) was interrupted after 10

items had been displayed. To display the remaining 40

items, enter the Command DISPLAY I/2/11-50 and transmit.

When displaying in FORMAT 2, always use the DISPLAY command

for the next citation. Use the PAGE command only to see the

overflow of a single citation.

In FORMAT 4, there is a limited amount of space reserved for

displaying "compressed" or "specify-formatted" citations.

The greater the number of fields in the SPECIFY FORMAT command,

the fewer the citations displayed. The following example

demonstrates how items will be displayed because of this

space limitation:

Assume that Set 2 has 500 accessions and that the command

SPECIFY FORMAT ACC=PDTjRN,AU; UTL has been accepted. A

DISPLAY 2/4/ALL will be accepted and transmitted to the

terminal as follows: DISPLAY 2/4/1-10 of 68. The remaining 58 items may be displayed In sequential groups

by using the PAGE command. To display items 69-500 in

FORMAT 4, enter the command DISPLAY 2/4/69-500. Again,

only 60 or 70 items in FORMAT 4 will be available for

sequential dlsplay because of space limitations. These

items, also, may be displayed In sequential groups and

the command reentered to display additional items.

RECON operational problems may by directed to the RECON

Coord,nator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facdlly in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext 286) or Wash,ngton. D C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext. 286) Other problems, suggeshons and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. CodeNST-42.Wash,ngton. D C 20546
RECON User's Bulletin

Change Your Mind?

When displaying in FORMAT 4, always use the PAGE command to

continue the display. As a rule of thumb, if MOR____EE appears,

use PAGE to continue the display.

On the terminal's keyboard It is not necessary to hit the

space bar after the PAGE command is entered for forward

paging. For backward paging, however, the PAGE command must

be followed by hitting the space bar and the minus character

prior to transmitting.

To make changes on the UTS 400 terminal after you have typed

in a command, try the following procedures:

I. Assume that you have expanded a term and have

already typed in

SELECT E6,E8,Ell,E14

and wish to change thls to read

DISPLAY E6,E8,E11,E14/4

Without reentering the command, send the cursor to

the home position, type DISPLA over the word SELECT,

then hlt the INSERT key, type Y followed by a space,

and move the cursor back into position to the right

of E14. Now you are ready to complete the command

by typing /4 and transmitting.

o Assume that you have just entered an equation that

you do not want to reenter, but you want to change

the COMBINE command to the SEARCH command so that

you can include a term not yet selected. For

example, you have entered:

COMBINE I+(2+5)*(3+4+6)+

and you want to add some additional terms. To

make thls correction, return the cursor to the home

position, and over the word COMBINE, type SEARCH

followed by a space to delete the final letter.

This will result in two spaces between the command

and the equation. To delete the secend space

following the word SEARCH hit the DELETE key.

This will move the entire equation to the left.

Changes made on a dial-in termlnal are made by simply backspacing to the character to be changed and rekeying the rest

of the command.

C : !l
RECONUser'sBulletin

From Your RECON

Coordinator

We would like to welcome Pam Barrett as our second RECON

Coordinator. She is replacing Scott Brittian, who has

relocated within the company. Pam will work with Mike

Moriarty in providing assistance to the RECON community.
N/ A

Nahonal Aeronautics and

_;pace Aclmlnfstration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

79/8

AUGUST 1979

Data Element Labeling

CONTENTS PAGE

Data Element Labeling !

Format 6 3

The RECON software was modified in early August to enhance

the readability of RECON output and to increase the user's

ability to recognize data fields within a citation. These

alterations include indentations that allow data elements

to be easily identified, the addition of more prefixes to

identify the data fields, and output lines that terminate

between words. These modifications affect the DISPLAY, TYPE,

and PRINT commands in al1 formats except Format l.

The prefixes and their meanings, applicable to all STIHS

Linear Files accessed by RECON, are shown in the following

table:

Prefix (Label) Field Description

ABA:* Abstract Author

ABS:* Abstract

ANI:* Analytic Item

ANN: * Analytlc Note

AUTH:* Personal Author

CNT#: Contract Number

CORP:* Corporate Source

CSS: Corporate Source Supplementary

DDT: Deletion Date

HAJS:* Major SubJect Terms

HINS: _ Hinor Subject Terms

PAA: Personal Author Affiliate

PAN: Personal Author Note

PAT: Personal Author Type

RPT#: Report Number

SAP: Sales Agency and Pricing

SUH: _ Data Summary

TLSP: Title Supplement

UNOC:* Unclassified Notation of Content

USE: * Use Statement

UTTL:* Unclassified Title

The above labels marked by asterisks are "flush left

labels" with some examples shown in figures that follow.

RECON operational problems may by directed to the RECON

Coord,nator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext 286) or Washington. D C (Telephone (202)-621-1910

ext 286) Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe(Telephone (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters, Code NST-42.Washlngton, D C 20546
RECON User's Bulletin NASA

Data Element Labeling

(Continued)

"flush left" labels

Following are three examples from the Facility Xerox 1200

that show the new modifications:

79A30964.# ISSUE 16 PAGE 2932 CATEGORY 7 RPT#:

AIAA PAPER 79-1157 79/06/00 14 PAGES UNCLASS|FZED

DOCUMENT

UTTL: General aviation turbine engine /GATE/ concepts

AUTH: A/LAYS. E. d.: B/MURRAY. D.L. PAA: B/(Willtams

Research Corp.. Walled Lake. Mich.)

CORP: Williams Res_nrch Corp.. Walled Lake. Mich.

AIAA. SAE. and ASME. Joint Propulsion Conference.

ISth. Las V_la5. Nev.. dune 1820. 1979. AIAA 14 p.

NASA-sDonsor_'d ro_.oarC_.

MAJS: /*AIRCRAFT ENGltJES/*ENGINE DESIGN/*GENERAL AVIATION

AIRCRAFT/'P_;DUCT DEVELOPMENT/'TURBINE ENGINES

MZNS: / AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATIONS/ FUEL COhSUMPTION/ GRAPHS

(CHARTS)/ LIFE CICLE CO_TS/ MARKET RESEARCH/ PISTON

ENGINES/ TECHNOLOGY UTILIZATION

ABA: S.D.

ABS: The paper OrRis with only a portion of the work done

by Willtams Research C_rporation fop NASA. It provides

• look at possible new-generation powerpiants that

offer the potential for remarkaDle alrplarm

performance qains with attendant safety, utility.

productivity and It fe cycle cost benefits. Attention

ts given to a turboprop engine concept and

applications. A turbofan engine having COPe COml:X:)nents

In common with the turboprop Is also discussed and an

airplane application s_own. Some of the more Important

findings are presenteU.

79N22049*m ISSUE 13 PAGE 1659 CATEGORY 2 RPTm:

NASA-CR-152271TRW-30584-6002-RU-OO-PT-2 CNTm:

NAS2-9579 79/01/00 2 VOLS 70 PAGES UNCLASSIFIED

DOCUMENT

UTTL: Evaluation of the Oiscnete vortex wa_e cross flow

mooel using vector computers. Part 2: User's _nual

for DIVORCE

AUTH: A/DEFFENBAUGH. F. D.: B/V1TZ. d. F.

CORP: TRW Defense and Space Systems Group. Re_OndO Beach.

Calif. AVAIL.NT[S SAP: HC AO4/MF A01

MAJS: /*CROSS FLOW/*FLOW MEASUREMENT/*USER MANUALS (COMPUTER

PROGRAMS)/'VORTICES

MINS: / CDC 6600 COMPUTER/ CDC 7600 COMPUTER/ FORTRAN/

TURBULENT FLOW/ VECTOR ANALYSIS

ABA: G.Y.

ABS: The users manual for the Discrete Vortex Cross fl_

Evaluator (DIVORCE) computer Program ts Presented.

DIVORCE was developed In FORTRAN 4 for the DCD 6600

and CDC 7600 machines. Optimal calls to a NASA vector

subroutine Package are provtcle¢l for use with the CDC

7600.

79V12000 197H ISS: O0 HB97.5.D45 LC-78-380750

AUTH: A/De VlncentI. ClauOIo.: B/Marx. Karl.; C/Sraffa.

Piero. B/181U-1B83.

UTTL: Marx e Sraffa : TLSP: note su un Jib attire dt teorta

economtca / ClauOio De Vlncentl.

De Donate. B_Pt : 163 p. ; 21 cm.

|deotogia • social a L4C)O0 Xncluoes bibliographical

references.

LC: _arxlan economics.

MAIN-AUTH TRACE-SERS*T]TL* CATLG BY-LC

/ / Publ In ITALY

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ORIGIHAL i:,';-:_:_EIS

OF P_:R QUALITY
RECON User's Bulletin N/LRA

Data Element Labe]ing

(Cent i nued)

The specified format example below (photographlcally reduced)

was made on the RECON Coordinator's printer at 80 characters

per line. It is the same for all Dial-Up printers.

_:ACL.PDT,RN,CN,AU,PAG:UrL

FORRAI-DEFINTION ACCEPTED.

DISPLAY 79N18e38/4

79N49e3B 78/e9/00 RPTU: NASA-CR-_S2187 CNTU: NAS2-9460 AUTH:

A/FLANAGAN, P.F. 49 PAGES

UI]L: IMPLEMENTATION OF AN OPTIMUM PROFILE GU]OANCE SYSTEM ON SIJ|LAND

Forma t 6 At the request of many users, a format without an abstract

has been developed. It is Format 6, which is the same as

Format 2, less the abstract• The first example is an A79

item. The second example is a 79V (NALNET) item. It

should be noted that the Formats 2 and 6 for NALNET are

identical.

PRINT 08/6/I TERMINAL=67

79A21738 ISSUE 7 PAGE 1160 CAIEGORY 33

78/00/00 3 PAGES UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENT

UTTL: Electrostatic Oamage susceptibility of semlconOuctor

devices

AUTH: A/SCHREIER. L.A. PAA: A/(Hughes Aircraft Co..

Tachr_ology Support Dtv.. CuJveP City. Calif.)

In: Reliability Dhystcs 1978; Proceedings of the

International Symposium. San Diego. Calif.. Apt11

18-20. 1978. (A79-21726 07-33) New York. Institute of

Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Inc.. 1978, p.

151-153.

MAJS: /*COMPONENT RELIABILITY/.ELECTRIC DISCHARGES/*

ELECTROSTATICS/'FAILURE ANALYSIS/*SEMICONDUCTOR

DEVICES

BINS: / ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTS/ PERFORMANCE TESTS/ TEST

EQUIPMENT/ THRESHOLDS/ WAVEFORMS

ABA: (Author)

79VII000 197H ISS: O0 0B1.025 BD. 44 8-774500-38-4

526.08 S: 526.70U489 LC-78-400634 QB337.5.04

AUTH: A/BoOsted A_lersen. Ole.

UTTL: Bouguer anom31y mnp of Denmark anO surrourcllng waters

/ by Ole Bed_te@ Andersen.

Blanco Lunos Bogtrykkerl, K benhavn : 7, (1) p. : map

(1 fold. col. In pocket) : 29 cm.

Geod risk Instituts skrifter : 3. raekka ; bd. 44

Bibliography: 9. 18)

LC: Gravity anomalies -- Denmark. GraVity anomalies --

North See.

ADDED: E'OK "*t LN °**** Denmark. Oeod risk Instltut.

Skrlfter. M emolres, 3. ; bO. 44.

BA|N-AUTH TRACE-SERS*CORP*TITL* CATLG BY-LC

/ / Publ In DENMARK

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OF POOR Q_/:,LITY
N/ A

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

79/9

SEPTEMBER 1979

CONTENTS

The BEGIN SEARCH Display - Leased Line

The BEGIN SEARCH Display - Dial-Up

PAGE

1

2

The BEGIN SEARCH

Display - Leased

Line

When a BEGIN SEARCH command is entered, the following

questionnaire is displayed on the user's CRT terminal screen:

BEGIN SEARCH/ PRESS TAB AFTER FIRST ENTRY/ TRANSMIT AFTER LAST ENTRY

TITLE OR ID:(]) USERID: (2)

SET SAVE:(3) (IF YOU WISH TO KEEP PREVIOUS SET_ RESPOND 'YES')

LETTER OR NUMBER OF DESIRED FILE COLLECTION: (4)

(THE FOLLOWING FILES ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO SEARCH, IF YOU ARE AUTHORIZED)

A-STAR, IAA H-UNCLASS ALTERN FILES O-FUTURE FILE

B-UNLIMITED,UNCLASS SERIES

C-R¢DCS FILE

D-INCLUDES A,B,C,E AND I

E-R&DCS,RTOP,RR FILES

F-NALNET BOOKS

G-ALTERNATE DATABASE

I-ASRDI SAFETY FILES

J-FUTURE FILE

K-FUTURE FILE

L-RPCS FILE

M-NALNET PERIODICALS

N-INCLUDES D AND F

P-FUTURE FILE

Q-FUTURE FILE

R-FUTURE FILE

S-FUTURE FILE

T-FUTURE FILE

U-FUTURE FILE

ENTER:

The questionnaire contains four sections, three of which

should be completed to give the user the greatest number of

options while doing searches. Note that subparagraph numbers

pertain to the numbers enclosed by parentheses.

(l) TITLE OR ID - It is recommended that the user supply a

short title for each search. However, the word TEST or even

a single letter will suffice. Otherwise, the user will be restricted to the DEFAULT file collection.

(2) USERID - The user should not complete the USERID portion

of the BEGIN SEARCH questionnaire because the processing of

this data is not currently implemented.

(3) SET SAVE - Once a BEGIN SEARCH command is entered, the

user may still retain the previously created sets by responding to the BEGIN SEARCH questionnaire in the following

manner:

RECON operetionll problems may by directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext. 286) or Washington. D. C. (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext. 286) Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST- 42. Washington. D C 20546,
The BEGIN SEARCH

Display - Dial-Up

o Insert a word, letter, or symbol in the

TITLE OR ID area.

o TAB to SET SAVE and enter "YES".

A request to save previous sets automatically places the

user in the file collection used for the previous sets, and

the file collection cannot be changed even by completing

the file collection entry. No entry in the SET SAVE space

will automatically delete the old sets.

(4) LETTER OR NUMBER OF DESIRED FILE COLLECTIONS - To aid

the user, descriptions of all file collections are displayed

on the questionnaire. The users can search only those file

collections for which they are authorized. They cannot alter

their authorizations or their default file collections at the

terminal. Help is available from the RECON coordinator.

When a BEGIN SEARCH command is entered by the dial-up user,

the following information is received:

BEGIN-SEARCH/ENTER DATA IN THE SAHE ORDER FOR THE FOLLOWING FIELDS, SEPARATED BY

SEMICOLONS: (I) SEARCH TITLE; (2) SEARCHER'S NAHE; (3) REQUESTER'S NAME; (4) STREET

ADDRESS; (5) CITY/STATE/ZIP; (6) SET SAVE ; (7) AND FILE COLLECTION CODE. ENTER

ALL FIELDS. PRIME AND ALTERNATE DATA BASES ARE ONLINE. THE FOLLOWING FILES ARE

AVAILABLE TO SEARCH IF YOU ARE AUTHORIZED.

A-STAR,IAA H-UNCLASS ALTERN FILES

B-UNLIHITED,UNCLASS SERIES I-ASRDI SAFETY FILES

C-R&DCS FILE J-FUTURE FILE

D-INCLUDES A,B,C,E AND I K-FUTURE FILE

E-R&DCS,RTOP,RR FILES L-RPCS FILE

F-NALNET BOOKS M-NALNET PERIODICALS

G-ALTERNATE DATABASE N-INCLUDES O AND F

O-FUTURE FILE

P-FUTURE FILE

Q-FUTURE FILE

R-FUTURE FILE

S-FUTURE FILE

T-FUTURE FILE

U-FUTURE FILE

ENTER:

The questionnaire contains seven sections that should be

handled as follows:

(I) Search Title - Enter short title and semicolon.

(2) Searcher's Name - Enter data and/or semicolon.

(3) Requester's Name - Enter data and/or semicolon.

(4) Street Address - Enter data and/or semicolon.

(5) City/State/Zip - Enter data and/or semicolon.

(6) Set Save - Enter YES if you wish to save previous

sets, otherwise enter semicolon.

(7) File Collection - Enter File Collection Code

Again, as for the Leased Line Terminals, a request to save

previous sets automatically places the user in the file

collection used for the previous sets, and the file collection

cannot be changed even by completing the file "collection entry.
N/ A

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific end Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

79/10

OCTOBER 1979

CONTENTS

Technique for DISPLAYING

New QUERY Subcommand DISPLAY

Special Notice about Default File

D for Selected Dial-In Users

PAGE

I

2

3

Technique for

DISPLAYING through

Specified Formatted

Items (Applicable to

both UTS 400 and

Dial-In Users)

When PAGEIng through a specified format set of items, any

KEEP command negates further PAGEing. The analyst must

start over with the original DISPLAY command (see Example I)

or remember the last item of the set displayed and start

DISPLAYing from that item (see Example 2).

EXAMPLE I

ENTER: DISPLAY I/4/ALL

Displayed on the screen are items I-5

EXAMPLE 2

ENTER: DISPLAY I/4/6-12

Displayed on the screen are items 6-12

Normally, the DISPLAY command gives the next item cumu-

]atively from the beginning of the set as shown in the

following example:

EXAMPLE 3

COMMAND DISPLAYED ON SCREEN

ENTER: DISPLAY I/4/ALL Items I-5

ENTER: DISPLAY Items 2-6

ENTER: DISPLAY Items 3-7

Usually, the analyst is not interested in having items repeated cumu|atively but in having items displayed sequentially beginning with the next consecutive number following the last group of items displayed.

RECON operational problems may by directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext. 286) or Washington. D. C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext. 286). Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST- 42. Washington. D. C 20546,
NewQUERY Subcommand, DISPLAY

The following example is a suggested technique for working

through a set of specified formatted items while using the

KEEP command.

Because PAGEing becomes invalid when the KEEP command is

used, use the DISPLAY command with offsets (e.g., +5 or

+7) to account for the number of items currently shown on

the screen.

EXAMPLE

COMMAND SHOWN ON SCREEN

DISPLAY I/4/ALL

KEEP I/3

DISPLAY +5

KEEP I/9-10

DISPLAY +7

Items 1-5 (5 items)

Items 1-5 (Keep item 3)

Items 6-12 (7 items)

Items 6-12 (Keep items 9, 10)

Items 13-18 (6 items)

Each time the DISPLAY command is executed, PAGEIng is

reactivated (as shown by the appearance of the word

MORE on the bottom line of the screen). However, the

PAGE command cannot be interspersed effectively with

the DISPLAY and KEEP commands because while PAGEing will

advance the items of a set after the DISPLAY command is

executed, the cumulative counter for displayed items

is not advanced, and future DISPLAYs with offsets probably will not give the desired results. The use of

DISPLAYs with offsets only (without the use of PAGEIng)

is more effective because the analyst does not need to

keep track of the number of items bypassed during PAGEing.

DISPLAYs with offsets can be positive or negative; therefore the analyst can work back and forth through the set

as desired. A set can be restarted at any point within the

set merely by DISPLAYing from that item and specifying a

range of items (for example, DISPLAY 1/4/19-30) and advanced with offsets from that point.

A new QUERY subcommand, DISPLAY, added to the NASA/RECON

System, provides the user with the capability to view

selected lines of a stored search (QUERY) sequence. These

selected lines will appear on the terminal screen, or in

the case of dial-ups, on the printer.

The format of the DISPLAY subcommand is the following:

QUERY DISPLAY

or

QUERY DISP

Sequence NAME/Line RANGE

The line range is optional.
a

Special Notice

about Default File

D for Selected DialIn Users

The command in the following example will display only

lines 2-9 of the stored search sequence named QSEQTEST.

QUERY DISPLAY QSEQTEST/2-9

The command in the next example will display the first page

of the sequence (22 lines for a UTS 400 or 10 lines for a

dial-up terminal.

EXAHPLE:

QUERY DISPLAY QSEQTEST

The following format is used to display sequences being

created or edited:

QUERY DISPLAY

or

QUERY DISPLAY/line range

EXAMPLE:

QUERY DISPLAY /2-9

This command will display lines 2-9 of the sequence currently being created or edited.

If the optional line range is omitted, the display will

start with the first llne of the sequence and will continue until a full page is shown or the end of the sequence

is reached.

On October 29, 1979, File D as default file will be made

available to those few NASA/RECON users whose scope of

access had included File D but whose default file had

been B.

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Nahonal Aeronauhcs and

Space Admnstrahon

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

79/11

NOVEMBER 1979

CONTENTS

Personnel Changes

NASA RECON Performance Record

Report Number Searching

(Courtesy of Denise Rich of Valley Forge

Space Center, General Electric Company

RECON News Enhancements

New Dial-ln Terminal Response

Elimination of the Prompt 'ENTER:'

under Certain Conditions.

1

1

l

2

3

3

Personnel Changes Two members of NASA Headquarters' Systems and Retrieval

Section responsible for NASA RECON planning and policy

have recently received promotions. Charles W. Hargrave

is now Head of the Acquisition and Dissemination Section

(NST-44) and Norman H. McCabe is currently heading the

document acquisition and evaluation program in that section.

Congratulations, Norm and Charles_

Meanwhile, they are continuing to help both the STI Facility

and the S&R Section (Bi11 Brown, Rex Talbert, Van Wente)

keep things going until their replacements are found.

NASA RECON Performance Record

Two new RECON records were established during October.

The first - the highest number of commands in one day -

13,O51; the second, the highest number of commands in

one week - 53,997.

Excerpts from Denise's letter

Report Number Searching (Courtesy of

Denise Rich of Valley

Forge Space Center,

General Electric

Company)

"Had a thought about what you might include in the RECON

newsletter. Today I was trying to find NASA-TMX-69355.

I expanded on NASA-TMX-69355 to find that there are quite

a few cataloged as TMX but 69355 was not listed. Luckily

I had the author's name and in expanding upon his name and

displaying the results, I noticed that I should have searched

under TM-X-69355. I probably never would have thouqht to do

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone (301)-796-5300

ext 286) or Washington. D C (Telephone (202)-621-1910

exl 286). Other problems, suggest,ons and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone. (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. CodeNST-42.Washmgton. D C 20546)
RECON User's Bulletin

RECON News Enhancements

this so maybe other searchers are having the same problem.

I called June Silvester and she said that it was a cataloging error. Is there any way these can be corrected rapidly?

I know just from our own in-house cataloging how hard it is

to be consistent. If there are other cataloging errors we

ought to be made aware of, please do so in the newsletter."

First, Denise, thanks for your input to this issue of the

Bulletin.

Now, some observations. With a file containing one and a

half million accessions, some anomalies must be expected.

A NASA Technical Memorandum is a TMX and is entered

correctly as NASA-TM-X-69355.

Incorrect entries are as follows:

NASA-TMX-69355 ( as furnished by your requester)

NASA-TM X 69355

NASA TM-X-69355

and other permutations with and without hyphens.

Normally, all report numbers on the NASA file contain hyphens

between short segments. The same rule applies to contract

numbers. To determine the correct input format, a perusal

of the numeric indexes in a STAR or IAA semiannual or annual

index will be helpful for nontextual entries. A few report

number examples are shown here.

Report Numbers

NASA-CR-1234

NASA-CR-123654

NASA-CP-2052

NASA-SP-342

NASA-TM-X-2601

NASA-TM-79219

NASA-RP-1022

NASA-NEWS-RELEASE-79-35

NASA-TP-1415

AD-AOO1234

AGARD-CP-244

RAE-LIB-TRANS-1924

Two types of RECON News have been developed. The first type

will contain news of general interest to users and will only

be available through the use of the HELP NEWS command.

The second type will contain news deemed to be urgently

needed by users and will be known as the emergency news or

simply ENEWS. The RECON coordinators, through the use of

a master terminal command, can allow this news to be displayed on users' terminals after any type of BEGIN or END

search commands. If necessary, the coordinators can also

broadcast the ENEWS to all users. However, the need for

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RECON User's Bulletin

New Dial-ln Terminal

Response

Elimination of the

Prompt 'ENTER:'

under Certain

Conditions

the RECON coordinators to use these capabilities should be

infrequent so that in the majority of cases there will no

longer be an automatic display of the RECON News. Individual

users may display the ENEWS at their own terminals by using

the HELP ENEWS command.

This applies to both Dial-ln and CRT terminals.

The New Terminal response to a SlGNOFF command from a Dial-ln

terminal gives the last uninterrupted duration of the search

session.

Example: 'SIGNOFF ACCEPTED, SESSION DURATION

XXX.YY MINS., USER DISCONNECTED'

XXX = MINUTES

YY = HUNDREDTHS OF MINUTES

The RECON prompt 'ENTER:' will not be displayed during

intermediate results of SEARCH EXPRESSION or QUERY EXECUTE

commands on Dial-In or CRT terminals. The 'ENTER:' will

appear only after the last command in the sequence is

executed.

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"qatonal Aeronautics and

Space Administralion

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

79/12

DECEMBER 1979

CONTENTS Page

Technique for Displaying (79/10 of Oct.) Superseded 1

LIMIT ALL - Second Cautionary Note I

Accession Number Format I

Season's Greetings 2

Technique for Displaying Superseded

LIMIT ALL - Second

Cautionary Note

Accession Number

Format

The DISPLAY technique for a specified format set of items,

described in NASA RECON USER'S BULLETIN 79/10, October 1979,

is superseded by a KEEP command that now allows further PAGEing without loss of continuity in the items comprising the

displayed set in Format 4. The user can display a set in

Format 4, KEEP one or more items, use the PAGE command to

enter the next display without the problems formerly associated with the PAGE commands. (Applicable to both UTS 400

and Dial-ln Users.)

The LIMIT ALL command has recently been reported to malfunction on a haphazard basis. The "malfunctioning" of

the command was confirmed at the Facility - and on a haphazard basis.

The conclusion: The LIMIT ALL command entered as LIMIT ALL

79 or LA 79 (for the Dial-ln) operates correctly. The introduction of a slash / before the 79 (or any other year or

ranges of years) is accepted by the system but will produce

"NO HITS," e.g. LA /79 or LIMIT ALL /79. The instructions

on pages 5-49 and 5-50 of the RECON User's Manual were superseded in March, 1979. Your attention is re-invited to page 3

of the RECON User's Bulletin 79/3 of March 1979. (Applicable

to both UTS 400 and Dial-ln Users.)

Format I, accession numbers only, is the granddaddy of the

output formats for computerized retrieval systems. It was a

terse, onerous format in the early 1960's; a library technician handed 50 to 150 accession or reference numbers could

spend several hours or days in locating, transcribing, or

gathering bibliographic data from 3 x 5 cards or other local

records. Format I, however, is useful for certain tasks.

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coord,nator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext 286) or Washington. D. C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext 286) Other problems, suggestaons and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington. D C 20546)
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RECON User's Bulletin NASA

Access ion Number

Format (Cont.)

With the added capability of SPECIFY FORMAT, it is now

possible to llst accession numbers in a vertical column

that permits easy checking and adequate space for handwritten or typed notes. The two variants are shown in

Figures 1 and 2.

4 448 448 ST/SUPERCRITICAL WINGS

KACC

FURflAT-DEFINITION ACCEPTED,

DISPLAY 841414-476

79KI@762 79K18741 79K48333 79K48eB3 78K4e86e 78K1e847 77K42463 77K4246t

77Kt23_4 77K4t228 77Klet46 77K48412 76K42t77 76Kt8859 75K1t284 74Kt1538

74K44" _oM4B078 77M_B883 79X76447 79X76446 79X7644S 79X758eB 79X74426

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SPECIFY FORMAT ACC

Season _s Greetings

Figure 2

(DISPLAY I14)

A print command of set 1 in Format 4 will result in two

columns of accession numbers, eighteen per column and

double spaced on each page. Set 1, containing 418 accessions, would be printed on 12 pages, 11 pages with 36

numbers, and the last page with 22 accession numbers.

The NASA Scientific and Technical Information Branch at

NASA Headquarters joins the NASA STI Facility in dispatching Season's Greetings to all of our friends in the

field.

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1980
NASA

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific end Technical

information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

80/1

JANUARY 1980

CONTENTS PAGE

Increased Transmission Rates 1

Reduction of Output Volume for 1

Dial-In Terminal

Full-Screen Utilization on the UTS 400 1

Terminal for the Frequency Command

The IAA NOT (Notes) Field 2

Increased Transmission Rates over

Dedicated Lines

As of January 31, UTS 400 terminal transmission rates

have been increased on all of the major dedicated lines --

Facility-Langley-North Carolina-Kennedy; Facility-Marshall/

Redstone-Johnson; Facility-Goddard-Headquarters-Wallops;

Facility-Los Angeles-JPL-Ames; and Facility-AIAA-ClevelandPittsburgh-Indianapolis -- all from 2400 to 9600 baud, a

fourfold increase.

Reduction of Output

Volume for Dial-In

Terminal

New software modifications implemented for the dial-in

terminal printers delete the trailing blank spaces in lines

of formatted data. The familiar RECEIVED message after a

RECON command has been removed by the same software modification.

A significant decrease in transmission time per record or

per command with a concomitant savings in terminal paper

results from these changes.

Full-Screen Utilization on the UTS 400

Terminal for the Frequency Command

Currently the Frequency Command uses about one half of the

UTS 400 Terminal screen, displaying a total of 19 F references in two columns. The screen display was originally

developed for the Bunker Ramo terminal. Software is being

developed for full-screen utilization:and will probably be

implemented in late January.

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext. 286) or Washington. D. C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext. 266) Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST- 42. Washington. D, C. 20546).
I

The IAA NOT(Notes)

Field

The IAA 1972 Imprint and Notes field (Tag No. 171)

whose mnemonic is "NOT '_ was implemented in 1972 for

A10K series. The field is used for conference titles,

for "IN" notes, and for journal or periodical titles

including issue number, volume number, page span, etc.

For conference or symposium notes, the annotation is

contained in parentheses.

The field is useful for sorting on sets that are limited

to the A series, particularly for years' spans between

1972 and 1980. A sort on such sets will contain two

principal alphabetized sorts - the first on the initial

parenthetical statements followed by the second on the

non-parenthetical statements.

A pure sort on journal titles will be possible after a

new field called "Journal Title" with a mnemonic JTL

is implemented. The field has been defined with its

implementation date uncertain at this time.

Figures I and 2 show the "NOT" sort for the first two

pages of an IAA set of 120 items. (The Specified Format for the figures is ACC, NOT; PDT, RN, PAG; UTL.

(Applicable to both UTS 400 and Dial-ln Users.)

See Page 3 for Figures 1 and 2

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UTTL:

UTTL:

UTTL:

UTTL:

UTTL:

pR|Nlr 13/4/t-120 T[l_:NALmlel

7993143S IAiorlcen |nstttuto of PHYSICS and

|flitltuto Of |le¢trl¢el an¢i |lKtrontci |fiSt hoe)Re.

&nne_DI ¢enfst,,on¢o on Mstlnotlsm ariel MBgnOtIC ilte_lol4.

|4th. ¢(ovollf_¢l. OhiO. MDV. 14*!J. IS?B.) _)t_hal of

&DDiieO PhySICS. voi. SO. Iklr. IS?O. Pt. 3. p.

243S-3497.

?9/03100 3 PAGES

1blue@tic ehOmotiilurgicel GrGDertiel of Osree:tlonel|y

ooIloIfted eutoctlc St/Bklll ¢OmpOOItOS- fhe effects

of ImneoIIng

71918874 (Oritl lh lnterDlaflotiry Society, Uoett_ On

SNcoleb k tePisl| Res0arch end Pr_¢OSOInQ. LO91_ioh.

[hglencl, SeGt. 14. IS. IS77,1Brtttsh |ntef.Dilnetory

See|ely. dournll (St(ace Techno|ogy/. eel. 39. dal_.

tOTS. p. 37-40.

79101/00 4 PAG(S

CoflveCt|ve thermoCeDllliry enO therIMOiulKulJr fluid

flow In tOu-G environment

?OA200S4 (CohEre Nell anal de le AKr.lrenl

k ltntlft(_e, Colloque Bur Io Tstane. 9e_,_0, Frlrl¢l.

Nov. 16. 17. II?G.) doeJrnel of the Loeo-C._nmon Metals,

vOi. We, Oe¢. 1977. D. =tS-9==.

??/13100 I PAGLS

Structure end orotBth of Inodl¢ Oxl_ films O_ tltehfuI

sea rABV e|loy

?9A49387 (|n|tltuto of Electrical and |lectPon,¢s

[notnlmr0. |sterna(ideal Semiconductor Laser

Cn_teron¢o. San Francisco. Calif.. Oct, 30-Nov. I.

ID?8.) lEES dou'nel of Quant_ Ele_trontcs. re1.

0|-15. AUg. 1979. P. 766-781.

79108100 S PAGES

_ntum-well AI/x/Gi/1-./As*GaAs notoro0tru¢turo

|tsars grove by metslorgan(¢ CJlemlcal ¥epor clepml(tlon

79949301 (Institute of Electrical and Electro-tee

_rIQli_eoPs. ]ntornetlnn_l SemIcor_ctoP taler

Co(flferehce. _h Ft_anGl_,co, Co(if., OCt. 30-Nov. I,

It?S. ) lEES dourhel of Queht_ SidE.ironies. vOI.

_S-II. AUG. I!)'/1. P. GS•-•93, Itosoarcn sul_o_ted Oy

She 8¢A _ato_lee. u.S. Ar_, end SABRA.

1rill08100 • P&Gi[S

Selleollity of v_r-Or_ Ir,CaAs and lnG4UteP

heteroJun¢tlOn Iseer stru¢tur_

UTTL:

UTTL:

79919711 (Metsllovedenle I tormicfleskele Obrld_oLke

Me(alloy, he. 4. 1978.,P. _. 7S.I Metal S¢i0nco end

Neat treatment, yeS. 20, no. 3-4, Sept. 1978, D. 344.

34S. TrsnsJetion.

7|101/00 2 PAGES

ReeryeteilIzeflon of ultra flhe*grelfle_ IDOryllltm

?OAlSHie3 (NASA Ames ReooBrcn Center en_ ANPICeh

Vacuum Society. Sympoktum or. the USe Ot the _Da¢e

Shuttle for ScienCe enO Engineering. Motfotl FlelO,

Calif.. Mey 9-11. 1077.i dOU_l Of Vacu_ _:lence end

TechnOlogy. ¥01. 14. NOV.*Dec. IS77. p. 1283-1_6_.

77/12/00 6 FAGES

Materiels pPO¢OSSIno tn SI_acelID

7891947S (NASA A_es Research Center area American

Vacuum So¢lOty. S_lt._ On the Use ol tr_ $tDe_o

Shuttle for S¢tenct e.o Engl_rtn9. Motfott fl_ld.

Calif.. May 9-11. 1977.l _h_u_r_; of Vaeu_ be. tenet ea_l

TecnnoloQy. vol 14. Kov.-Oe¢. 197T. p. 1293, I;P93.

?7119100 2 PAGES

UTTL: Electron-Deem m*crczone refining of _erro_ _nd-GaD

selntcohch_Ctthg alloy layers

UTTL:

UTTL:

7SAIBaBS (NASA Am_B3 kesoer¢_ Center en_ Jest. icon

Vacuum Society. SylqDo_t_m O_ the USe of tf_ SpKo

Shuttle fOP Science e_._ Et,_lneoPIng. ;_k_ffetl Field.

Cliff.. Mby 9-11. 197_,1 uc,ur'nel of ¥_cuum S_l*_e_e and

TechnolOgy. eel. 14. t;ov.-DeC. 1977. _. 1_S_-1957.

77/12/00 B RAGES

SMacole_ end m_torlal prO¢OSSlh 9 fI¢1111131 en_

o_perimehts

UTTL:

78A49616 IPIs'.'M v &stro_omichovktt Zilt,tr,l.I. re1, 3.

NOV. 1977. _. SIS'S21.} SOviet Astr,moq'y Letto._. eel,

3. NOV.'DeC. 1977. p, 283"28S. Trans0ntIGn.

77/1_/00 3 PAGES

SImUlittO_ Of COaleter_' Orates

78A36310 (Royal Society. Ol lk=usstO_ el: Int. Meter!ale

BehaviOuR In Low Gravity Conditions. LO_(SO_. England.

Ot1¢. 13. 1970.) Itoyn| SOCIety (LonOoh). Proc@_dlngs.

Series A * M_theemtncel end PnySlCi; Sclen¢_. vul.

381. nO. I_(_, Mey II. 197J. _. 1•1-1•S,

70105/11 • PAGES •

Priorities Ih the Initial use ot feNl¢eiPdis for CRyStal

orm_tn

T_£NINA_ $8 PAGE I (|fENS t- 11 OF leO)

FIGURE 1

UTTL:

UTTL:

UTTL:

UTTL:

UTTL:

UTTL:

70A3_311 (Royal Society. 01seusslon on the MAtePtalS

_hSVIOUP in LO_ G*'avlty ConditiOns. London. England,

Doe. 13. IS7E.) Royal _G¢isty I LonUOn). Proceedings,

Series A " Mathematical enO PhysICal SCienCeS, eel.

381. no. 170S, May I1, 1978. p. 1S?-IB4.

78/0S/11 9 PAGES

_torlels D_ivtour in low Qrevlty envlrotVlklnt

UTTL:

70A29274 (Socteto francmtse do MetsilurOIo. dOurhoee

Me tellurgiQues d'AulOm,_e, paris, frnnco. OCt. 197B.)

Memo(Poe SclsntlftOue_ (_ le Revue _ Metlilurgte.

eel. 75. foO. 1978. p. _3-100. In French. Research

Supported Oy the S_cseto Pocntnoy Ugtno Ken ill ann enO

So¢iel00es AutOmCd3ilOs PeuOeot.

7B/02/00 8 PAGES

Growth by prooa_atlon ot tvtnnln 0 _lsnes G_ the

eutoctlc compounds Sn the ternary AI-Fo-SI SySte_

79A27038 iSvmroc_noe ProlzvOOstov. no. S, 1978. p.

1-3.) eetdinO ProOuction. us1. 25. May lgTd. p. 1-3.

Trsnslltion.

70105100 3 PAGES

The offe_Gt Of Ol@CtronUt_etlc sctteh Oh th_ pPtlB_ry

eoltOifIcetion of titanium

7HAlOeS1 Kti Electron(ca. eel. 20, no. 2, 1977. p.

101-11S. In FRench.

77100100 16 PAGES

SiliCOn fOP solar phOtOCellS

789105S3 _CLI £icctro,_lcl, vol. 20. no. 2. 1977. p.

133-151. lh French,

77100100 19 PAGES

SlflOIo Crystll silicon pt_oto¢011s fer tiPtOe(Pill use

- State of the irt iho perspectives of_ the fUtURe

79642814 ACta MetallurOica. re1. 27. duly I079. p.

11_$*1145. 1147-115S. ResearCh suRlieR(gO oy Marquette

UntvePslty.

79107/00 20 PAGES

01aContlh_Ou_ ¢oars0nin_ Of lall_llar ¢elluler

OPoclpltete tn on eustehtti¢ fo-30 wt._ NI-• ut._ TI

alloy. I - UD_OIOgy. l| - Gro_tn slnottCs

UTTL:

UTTL:

UTTL:

UTTL:

UTTL:

UTTL:

TERMINAL 88 PA_E | (lrEiS

FIGURE 2

79913445 ACre MltellurOlCi, VOI. 25, OCt. 1977. p.

11S1-118_.

77110/00 12 RAGES

An experimental study Of the _rtenstto nucleation end

gROwth In 18/8 stainless stool

70A51_9 AkaOemlte NSUk ArmlShskOi sea. DO_ledy.

vol. 06. nO. 2. 1978. p. 91-81. In Russian.

70/00/00 7 PAGES

OptimizatiOn of the crystal aPOI of hsgh-PO_eP

multi emitter transistors

78&53609 American A_trona_tlcal Society ano Deutsche

Gesellscheft f_P Lull- end Re_mfinPt. GoG_ard

Me.oriel SymDostum. 161n. vsenlngton. D.C.. Mar. 9-10.

1970. 4AS I1 p. SunOesmlnlstor*um fuor For$chul_ UflO

Tocnnoiogte

70103/00 ARTs: AAS PAPER 78-027 11 PAGES

The _ormen Spice Processing Leo snO tts expert IIROn(

tecIIltios

7991041S /_llericen CeremlC Society. dournel, eel. •1.

Sept.-Oct. 1978. P. 425-429.

78/10/00 S PAGES

Micros(Recluse of SIC prel_DrO¢l by Chemical V4NDOr

OmDOsItIO_

70A44172 American Ceeill¢ $4_iety Bulletin. eel. S?.

dune 1979. p. 609. 810. ERDA-NASA-SponsoRed Research.

78/06/00 2 RAGES

CIstt n_ lIr_ silicon CRystals Ih clear Slltc_

CPUCIOIos

70911_47 American CerU_l¢ SOCiety. _ournai. yeS. 60.

Sept.-Oct. 1977. p, 428-43S.

77110100 8 PAGES

Otrectt onl|ly sO ltdlfle_ ceramic eutocttcs

7893003_ /wertcan Institute Of Aero_autt¢_ e_O

AstrOnautiCs. Thermeq_hySl¢S Ccmferon¢o. 141h. O_IW_.

Fie.. dune 4-8, 1979. 7 p.

79/08/00 APT#: A|AA PAPEA 7S. 1040 7 PAGtS

The role of thormO_hySICS in the _eel(In. _DtlllZatlon

enO unOerstandlnG of somlcOnoU¢toP cPyslal growth In

IU_Ce

12- _4 OF 130)

'_ _OOR QUALITY
NASA

,,lational Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

8O/2

FEBRUARY 1980

CONTENTS

Current Session Status (CU) Command

An Alternate Method for Removing an

Accession from a Set

Title Search on NALNET Book File

(File Collection F) - Example

'_Data Bases 0n-Line in 1979"

UNIVAC 0774-96 Rodel 800 Terminal Printer -

Electrosensitive Paper

Index for 1979 RECON User's Bulletins

Page

1

3

3

Current Session

Status (CU) Command

An Alternate Method

for Removing an

Accession from a Set

The CU command display has been modified to include three new

elements: SET(S) IN USE, ACCESSIONS KEPT, and PRINTS. See

Figure 1 below.

CURRENT SESSION STATUS

DATE .............. FEBRUARY 98, 498B

NASA/STIF TIME .... 87:48

FILE COLLECTION ... N

MODE .............. STANDARD

SPECIFY FORMAT .... NOT IN EFFECT

LIMIT ALL ......... NOT IN EFFECT

SET[S] IN USE ..... 38

ACCESSIONS KEPT ... KEEP SET IS EMPTY

PRINTS ............ NO PRINTS REQUESTED

Figure 1

The primary method for removing an accession from a given set is

by use of the KEEP command. The accession is kept followed by

COHBINE 1-99. Set 2 is the resultant and is devoid of the

accession kept in Set 99.

An alternate method is to limit the set to the accession that

is scheduled for removal. Working with Set 1, assume that

80N10011 is unwanted and scheduled for removal. Simply limit

the set as follows: LIMIT 1/80/N/10011; upon execution, Set 2

RECON opemtiomil problem may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore, Maryland, (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext. 286) or Washington, D. C. (Telephone: (202}-621-1910

ext. 286). Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST- 42. Washington. D. C. 20546).
ls created containing a single accession. Combining 1-2, Set

3 is created minus the purged citation. This technique will

also work with two or more citations to be removed or purged

from a given set, e.g., LIMIT 1/79/10003,11200,11500-11503,

11800, etc., up to a total of 60 character spaces.

Title Search on

NALNET Book File

(File Collection F)

As of December 31, 1979 there were 71,000 V-IOK Series

(Accessions with holdings) for the 14 installations that comprise the NASA Library Network. The total holdings for the

network was 113,000. Also contained in the series were 272,000

titles that had been selected from the Library of Congress MARC

II tapes. Text-search techniques should be exploited for this

file.

To search for a title on "security of airlines" or "airline

security" a text-search command could be entered: SELECT

TTL/AIRLINE *9 SECURITY

This command will search all book titles for the words AIRLINE

and SECURITY in the title, regardless of order, AIRLINE *9

SECURITY or SECURITY *9 AIRLINE. It should be noted that

"highlighting" with double asterisks occurs on the local

printer and does not occur on an overnight print order at

the Facility. See Figure 2 and 3, below.

ENTER:

DISPLAY 841212

76V22849 4976 ISS: 88 HE9797.4.SkM66 8-943785-26-7 387.7364 LC-76-45484 C

78-8228S2C.4_ 782475

AUTH: A/ROORE, KENNETH C., A/4934-

UT1L: _e AIRPORT, AIRCRAFT & AIRLINE SECURITY mm / BY KENNETH C. MOORE.

4ST ED. SECURITY UORLD PUB. CO., LOS ANGELES : XlX, 3S5 P. _ 24 CR.

$44.95 INCLUDES INDEX.

LC: AIRPORTS -- SECURITY MEASURES. HI3ACKING OF AIRCRAFT -- PREVENllON.

AERONAUTICS, CORRERCIAL -- FREIGHT -- SECURITY MEASURES.

NASA: / AIR CARGO/ AIR PIRACY/ AIRCRAFT SAFETY/ AIRLINE OPERAIIONS/

AIRPORTS/ CARGO

RAIN-AUTH TRACE-TIIL_ CATLG BY-LC

/ / AUAIL: / GOODARD/ LEUIS

Figure 2 - Local Print on Terminal Printer

PRINT 01/2/1 TERMINAL=66

76V22019 1976 ISS: O0 HE9797.4.S4M66 0-913708-26-7

387.7364 LC-76-45104 C 78-022852C.1: 782475

AUTH: A/Moore. Kenneth C.. A/1934-

UTTL: Airport. aircraft & airline security / by Kenneth C.

Moore.

let ed. Security NorlO Pub. Co.. Los Angeles : xlx.

355 D. ; 24 cm.

S14.$5 Includes InUex.

LC: Airports -- Security measures. HiJacking of

aircraft -- Prevention. Aeronautics. Commercial --

Freight -- Security measures.

NASA: / AIR CARGO/ AIR PIRACY/ AIRCRAFT SAFETY/

AIRLINE OPERATIONS/ AIRPORTS/ CARGO

MAIN-AUTH TRACE-TITL* CATLG BY-LC

/ / AVAIL: / GODDARD/ LEWIS

Figure 3 - Overnight Print

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"Data Bases On-Line

in 1979"

"Data Bases On-Line in 1979" is an article by Martha Williams

and Laurence Lannom in the Bulletin of the American Society

for Information Science, Vol. 6, No. 2 of December 1979. On

Pages 22-31 of the Bulletin, the article contains current

data for 149 data bases that are available to subscribers

from BRS, LRS, SDC, NLM, and the NY Times Information Bank.

Each Base has the following seven attributes in tabular

form: Data Base Name, SubJect and Scope, Vendor, Start Date

or Years Covered, Record Update Freq., Connect Charge ($/Hr)

and Print Charge ($). NASA Centers are reminded that Facility

personnel will search such bases upon request.

UNIVAC 077 - 96

Model 800 Terminal

Printer - Electrosensitive Paper

Without any unusual problems, the Facility has been using

ESP 012 paper manufactured by the Nicolet Paper Co. of

De Pere, Wisconsin for the Univac Terminal Printers.

Some UTS 400 users have experienced difficulties with

"Fitchburg Times Print No. 3252" paper for the terminal

printers. Users are hereby advised that "Times Print No.

3252" should be ordered in 10 roll batches only. If any

difficulties are encountered, call Mr. Joe Casarel] at

Coated Products Co. (Fitchburg), P. O. Box 1106, Scranton,

PA 18501, telephone (717)-347-2035 and give him the batch

number of the roll of paper (Stamped on the end of the No.

3252 roll). He will then advise on the paper suitability.

(Applicable to UTS 400 Users only.)

Index for 1979

NASA RECON User's

Bulletin.

The Index for NASA RECON User's Bulletins 79/1 through 79/12

is forwarded as a separate entity with this bulletin.

-3-
Index to NASA Recon User's Bulletin

January - December 1979

79/1 through 79/12
Ai

ISSUE PAGE

/

Accession Number Format

ASRDI Searching in File Collection D

B

BEGIN BYPASS File Collection Option

BEGIN SEARCH Display Dial-Up

BEGIN SEARCH Display Leased Line

C

I

Change Your Mind

Current SESSION STATUS Command

D

I

Data Bases, Using BRS, Lockheed and SDC

Data Element Labeling

Default File D for Selected Dial-In

users, Special Notice about

Dial-In Disconnect

Dial-In Terminal Response, New

Dial-In User's Set Save

DISPLAY and PAGE Commands, Notes on

DISPLAY E Numbers

DISPLAYING, Technique for

DISPLAYING, Technique for (79/10 of Oct.)

Superseded

Elimination of Redundant Commands

E

i

Elimination of The Prompt 'ENTER _ under

Certain Conditions

File Collection N

Format 6

FREQUENCY Command Modification

F

L

!

Library Network "Stop Words _'

LIMIT ALL Command Modifications

LIMIT ALL Secondary Cautionary Note

79/12

79/2

79/3

79/9

79/9

79/7

79/5

79/5

79/8

79/10

79/5

79/11

79/6

79/7

79/5

79/10

79/12

79/3

79/11

79/5

79/8

79/6

79/2

79/3

79/12

I-2

12

4

2

1-2

2

1-2

3

1-3

3

3

3

1

1-2

2

1-2

1

3

3

2

3

1

7-10

3

1
M

Mnemonics, New

N

NASA RECON Performance Record

New Dial-In Terminal Response

New Hnemonics

New QUERY Subcommand DISPLAY

New RECON Fields for the Standard

File Collection (D)

New Users

Notes on the DISPLAY and PAGE Command

Numeric Words, Text Search Using

0

Online NALNET Book Data Entry

P

Password ID Control

Personnel Changes

_Q

QUERY

QUERY Subcon_nand DISPLAY, New

R

RECON Coordinators, From Your

RECON News Enhancement

RECON Performance Record, NASA

RECON User's Manual Revision

Releasing Set 99

Reminder (NALNET)

Report Number Searching

Report Number Searching

S

SEARCH EXPRESSION, A New RECON Command

SESSION STATUS Command, Current

ISSUE

79/3

79/11

79/11

79/3

79/10

79/2

79/1

79/7

79/2

79/4

79/3

79/11

79/1

79/10

79/1

79/2

79/5

79/7

79/11

79/11

79/1

79/3

79/6

79/4

79/11

79/2

79/5

PAGE

2

1

3

2

2-3

10-11

5

1-2

5

2-7

5-6

1

2

2-3

5

12

3

3

2-3

1

1

4

1

1

1-2

1-5

1
Simplified Format Options for PRINT,

TYPE,and DISPLAY

Simplified Mnemonics

Special Notice about Default File D

for Selected Dial-In Users

SPECIFY FORMAT Command

S_perfluous Blanks

"Stop Words", Library Network

T

Technique for DISPLAYING

Technique for DISPLAYING (79/10 of Oct.)

Superseded

Text Search Information

Text Search "Stop Words"

Text Search Using Numeric Words

Thesaurus Terms

U

Using BRS, Lockheed and SDC Data Bases

ISSUE

79/3

79/3

79/10

79/1

79/3

79/2

79/lO

79/12

79/4

79/1

79/2

79/6

79/5

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4

1-2

3

1-2

5

7-10

1-2

1

2

3-4

5

I
N/ A

•,,latQqal Aeronautics and

Space Administration

kientiflc end Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

8O/3

MARCH 1980

CONTENTS

Current Session Status Command - Single Line

(Refers to first item in 79/5)

RECON Search Performance

Training Exercise for SEARCH EXPRESSION, SORT,

and SPECIFY FORHAT

1

Current Session

Status Command -

Single Line

When a display is on the RECON CRT, use of the Current

Session Status Command (CU) produces a display that wipes

out the existing display. Use of one of the optional

operands (mnemonics) with the CU command will produce a

display of a single element of the nine in the full CU

display. A single-line CU element will appear above the

existing RECON display. The CU elements with mnemonics

are listed below. A full CU command before ending a search

will provide verification of prints ordered.

\

BB N

+_ooo BEGIN SERRCH BYPR$$ ee_o

DRTE/FILE 3-13-80/N

PRIRARY DATR BASE ONL;NE

SET NO,OF NO.OF DESCRIPTION OF SET

NO. REC. 0CC. (+-OR, e-AND, -:NOT)

ENTERI

CUD

DATE .............. MARCH 13, 1980

ENTER:

CUT

HASR/$TIF TIRE .... 14:17

ENTER:

CUF

FILE COLLECTION ... N

ENTER:

CUR

MODE .............. STRNDRRD

ENTERa

CUS

SPECIFY FQRI_:IT .... HOT IN EFFECT

ENTER:

CUL

LIMIT RLL ......... HOT IN EFFECT

ENTER:

CUR

SET(S) IN USE ..... N0 SETS CREATE_

ENTER:

CUK

ACCESSIONS KEPT ... KEEP SET I$ ERPTY

ENTER:

CUP

PRINTS ............ NO PRINTS REQUESTED

ENTER:

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore• Mewlend. (Telephone: (301)-796-53OO

ext. 286) or Washington, D. C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext. 286). Other problems• suggestions and comments may be

directed to Norm McCabe (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST- 42, Washington, D. C 20546).
RECON User's Bulletin

RECON Search

Performance

During the period July 1 through December 31, 1979

the Facility made 1198 primary data base searches for

qualified requesters and evaluation forms covering

252 (21t) were received by Hatch 1, 1980. The evaluators

indicated their requirements were met completely or "for

the most part" by 219 (86.9t) of the searches; 163 (64.7t)

indicated no specific documents or subject areas were

missing.

The overall pertinence of citations was reported to be

76.3_, with 49_ of the citations considered to be related

precisely to the evaluators' requirements.

For the same period, 3427 RECON searches made by field

users were mailed to the appropriate users with evaluation

forms. From a return of 285 (8.3t) and on a usefulness

scale of 1 to 7, 67 were rated at 7; 76 at 6; 111 at 5;

15 at 4; 8 at 3; and 4 at 2.

Field users' evaluations on NHQ Form 110 are very important

and again RECON coordinators at the Centers and other installations are reminded and encouraged to collect and submit the forms to NASA Headquarters,

Training Exercise

for SEARCH EXPRESSION, SORT, AND

SPECIFY FORMAT

The following example has been developed as a training

exercise for RECON operators to gain skill using SEARCH

EXPRESSION (SE), SORT (SO), and SPECIFY FORHAT (SF).

The relatively new term ACID RAIN was chosen for the exercise

because of its small document (and occurrence) population - 8

by title, 12 by abstract and 67 by the Thesaurus subject term.

SE UTP/'ACID RAIN'+AX/'ACID RAIN'+ST/ACID RAIN results in

sets I to 4 below (Figure 1).

SEARCH NO. OR2

SEARCH TITLE A¢:O RAIN SORTED BY ¢N

OATE/FIL| 3-1S-BO/O

SEARCH BY ECKERT

IEOUISTIS [CKERT

STREET ROOUIO0

CITY/STATE FACILITY

lrl[ItMlkAL l? 3 "19"1'_[R*°"

XO 1043

TOTAL TIME PER _',O FOR THIS USER

RECCN T I_:E RECO_ t |UE RECON

COL_t_A _ M]ri NO ¢OU_iLNO _IN NO CO&*MANO

KGIN SEARCH 0100.00 O COMBINE OOO.OO :f PRINT

EXPAkO O00.OO O LIMIT O00.O0 LIMIT ALL

O|SPLAY OO0.O0 O KEEP OOO.O0 O END SEASON

SELECT 019.01 O TYPE OO0.O0 O ERROR

DISPLAY SET OO0.GO 0 MESSAGE OO0.O0 O |TEllS IqllNT|O

TOTAL ELAPSED TiME IS 013.$8 MIN.

SIT NO. OESCR|PIIGN

1 J 8 uTP/ACID *_1 RAIN

2 1_ 02 &X/A¢|O ".0 mAIN

i 87 67 ST/ACID RAIN

4 ?0 ?3 1_2.3

S TO 70 _OkT 04/POT /

S TO TO sORT 04/UTL /

T TO 70 SORT 04/CO /

6 TO TO SORT 04/L_G /

S TO TO soRT 04/FST /

00 TO TO SORT 04/AU I

11 TO 70 SORT 04/AN l

12 TO 70 SORT 04/PAG /

03 70 70 SORT 04/MUR /

14 TO TO SORT 04/C,N /

T IME

BIN _0

000. O0 I

OO0. O0 0

000.34 2

000. O0 I

?O

Figure 1

2
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Sets 5 through 14 are sorted versions of Set 4 and each set

must have its own SPECIFY FORHAT, which is dependent upon the

sortlng parameter.

Set 5 is Set 4 sorted by PDT (Publication Date). The SF for

Set 5 is ACC, PDT, CAT, PAG. See Figure 2. The print order

for this set is PR 5/4. The search must be ended at this point

because a new SF will be given for SET 6, as we shall see. If

the search is not ended, the latest SF will apply to all previous print orders in Format 4. When the search is ended, the

sets are saved and they are available because the BEGIN SEARCH

or BEGIN SEARCH BYPASS command was not executed. A SET STATUS

command at this point would be helpful.

PIIKr 06/4/t - 10 T[ImINALoI?

?4A_?SS 74/04/14 ¢ATEGOllY 20 4 PAGES

I_NSO?_I 7S/0tl/00 CATEGORY 4S tN PAGES

_IN?I3S7 ?l/O0/O0 ¢ATEGWIY 47 20 PAGEs

lflflliSOLlJ4 ?I/Og/QO CATEGORY AS |1 PAGES

TIAIIIlqll

?"/At S71ia

TIfAI I IkllY

YIN_IIT

_i/11/00 CATEGOlY 4S $?e PAG|I

Iq_/11/_ ¢ATEGOIY AS 10 PAGES

_B/11/13 CATEGORY 4S S PAGES

?7/00/00 ¢ATEGO/Y 4S _4 PAOKI

Figure 2

Set 6 is Set 4 sorted by UTL (Title). The SF for Set 6 Is

ACC, UTL. See Figure 3. End the search and fill out the form

on the CRT. The title could be "ACID RAIN SORTED BY TITLE*'.

PIINT 04/4/I-70 TEIIMINiL-S?

IIOAII$?S UTTL: A method fop mooellng the ClODoll|tlon

of I_dlfur bY pPK|pltItlCm Over pA_lwI IG&lea

111&IS_I41 UTTL: A model foP _ln ¢ompoeltlon _ the

weehout of malfuP cltoalcle

liOAIlr2ST UTTL: /_Id precipitation in the umatoPn

II_l tt¢ Stat_

70ASOI9_ UTTL: A¢l@ pPeclllltOtlOn tn Atllmtl¢ ¢4mato

?0A2344! UTTL: ActO p_Clpltntlon In the New YOrk

i_tropolltan APINI - Its ralltlonl_Sp $0 NtOOrOl_ICa|

fNtorll

71B&41414 UTTL: ACid prtKIpttlltlon In the Illatl_APlondl

77Allli,17 UTTL: ACid pre¢lpltatto_ In the

northimatepn Unlto¢l States - 10H and acidity

_ASOII7 UTTL: Acid rain

F igure 3

3

ORIGINAL P_..:._E IS

,_F POOR O'.c !TY
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Set 7 is Set 4 sorted by CO (Corporate Source). See Figure 4.

The SF is ACC, CO.

_llll?4Mi ¢ORP: Ae_OC_ llelNmrch LaDll.. |_..

PPIRCoto_. N. d.

_Ni?|_17 C01tP: Battelle PKtflq: Nc_thwolt LlIo41..

Ill Oh II_cl, II_h.

71N/793S7 COAP: liro_AhmNm NItlqlm41 Ld%. UDtqm. N.

¥.

71_79_HS3 ¢0RP: lirlmhNlvlm ImtlGi_l LID.. UJttm. II.

Y.

110NI2630 COItP: llrookhllv_ National UiO.. Upton. N.

Y.

Figure 4

Set 8 is Set 4 sorted by LNG (Language). All items are in

English except the last three. Note that no language notation

means that the document is in English. See Figure 5. The SF

is ACC, LNG.

??A I t U?

?4A32TJli

711ASlg73 In GEmlAN

71A_ 14161i In t_SSI AN

?1A202_ ! In INSSI A_

Figure 5

Set 9 is Set 4 sorted by FST (Financial Support). The SF is

ACC, FST, HUR. The HUR is the microfiche avallablllty code.

It actually means Hicrofiche Unavailability Reason. If no unavailability code is checked by the input catalogers, it means

that the document is available on microfiche. See Figure 6.

78AI 8110?

?TAIO71S_

ll_ ! SllSi) • •

ll0NIMEll * •

liON1 li_41 * •

llmll INI_ * I

lqilQOFIrl * •

?lIN 1741Hi * •

1_A1_970

71Ni?83S? •

71M79337 •

Figure 6

4

An asterisk means that

the item is NASA supported.
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Set 10 is Set 4 sorted by AU (Author). The SF is ACC, AU.

The figure for this and the following sets will be on your

CRT or Dial-In record.

Set 11 is Set 4 sorted by RN (Report Number). The SF is

ACC, RN. Try it.

Set 12 is Set 4 sorted by PAG (Number of Pages). The $F is

ACC, PAG. Try it.

Set 13 is Set 4 sorted by MUR (Microfiche and non-microfiche

groupings). Try it with an SF ACC, MUR.

Another warning! Hake certain the search is ended prior to

putting in a new $F for a new Print Command,

This training exercise should increase your skills and confidence on RECON; and it should impress you with the power

and flexibility of the overall RECON system.
NASA

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific rand Technicml

informmtion Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

80/4

APRIL 1980

CONTENTS

An Enhancement for the Dial-In Terminal

Stored Search of NASA Corporate Sources

for Use by Field Users

How to Subject-Search the N File CollectionA Review

Welcome to John Wilson

PAGE

1

An Enhancement for

the Dial-In Terminal

Backspacing on the Dial-In terminal to recover from an error

can, at times, be a cumbersome task. It can be done by manipulating the H key in concert with the CTRL key, but this produces hard-to-read strikeovers.

An easier way to recover from a keying error (when entering

a command) is to simply hit the BREAK key and re-enter the

command. Software modifications have been implemented so

that the carriage returns to the left immediately instead

of generating an error message.

StOred Search of NASA

Corporate Sources for

Use by Field Users

Thirty NASA Corporate Sources (from pages 318 and 319 of the

March 1980 CSAL) have been stored under the Stored Search

Feature of NASA RECON.

All field users are invited to use this stored search. After

a BEGIN SEARCH or a BEGIN SEARCH BYPASS, enter Q EXECUTE

NASA7580(ID42). Your results will look like this for Sets

1 through 8.

• _mot BEGIN SEARCH BYPASS mmmm_

DATE/FILE 4-t7-88/0

PR%NRRY OATA EASE ONLINE

SET NO.0F N0.OF DESCRIPTION OF SET

NO. REC. 0CC. (+=OR, m=AND, -',NOT]

..................................

LIflIT-ALL ACCEPTE0 /75-8s

tL 9385 93SS C0/NC45298_ IINC47365

E£L 6937 6937 C0/NC499978 //NC99996

3L 3984 3984 C0/N08S261S //N01S786

4L 6631 6631 CO/N02 t8491

SL 6SS9 6e59 C0/N03_S7S3

6L 3938 3938 C0/N038S289 //ND89469

7L 26t 264 CO/N094732S //NE342e5

HL37S77 37877 4÷2÷3÷4+S÷6÷7

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator st the NASA Scientific end Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext 286) or Washington. D C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext. 286). Other problems, suggestions end comments may be

directed to John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST-42, Washington, D. C 20546).
RECON User's Bulletin

You may combine Set 8 with any set or sets of your choosing.

Sets 9 and 10 are from the telecommunications family. Set

10 is a major term (MJ) selection of R1, R23. Sets 11 and

12 are combinations of the NASA Centers and telecommunications

families.

9L 2865 2885 RI,R23 ST/TELECOflRUN!

4eL 4868 166e f13/Rq,R23 5T/TELECORR

44L 143 443 8mte

42L 484 484 8AND9

How to SubJect-Search File Collection N (hereafter called File N or N) is a

the N File Collection- merger of File Collections F (Books) and D (the standard

A Review prime file or default file). A short review of searching

N, F, and D separately is described below.

First, let us search on INTERFERON, the "IF" drug on the

cover of TIRE for March 31, 1980.

D FILE

SEARCH NO. 003

SEARCH TZTLE INTERFERON/F|LE D

DATE/FILE 4-16-80/D

SET NO. DESCRIPTION

1 10 10 ST/ZNTERFERON

2 8 8 UTP/ZNTERFERON

3 11 17 TX/ZNTERFERON

4 19 33 1+2+3

You must search the subject term file (and its variants

in the EXPAND file), the title (UTP or ATL), and the

abstract (TX or AX).

F FILE

SEARCH NO. 004

SEARCH TZTLE INTERFERON/FILE F

DATE/FILE 04-16-80/F

SET NO. DESCRIPTXON

1 5 5 ST/INTERFERON

2 16 35 LT/INTERFERON

3 19 38 1+2

When searching the F File you must search both the

SubJect Term (ST) and LT. LT covers all text-searchable

fields and it does not include the NASA Thesaurus indexing

(ST). LT is the default field when in File F.

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N FILE

SEARCH NO. 009

SEARCH TITLE INTERFERON/FILE N

DATE/FILE 04-16-80/N

SET NO. DESCRZPTION

1 15 15 ST/[NTERFERON

2 16 35 LT/INTERFERON

3 8 8 UTP/|NTERFERON

4 11 17 TX/ZNTERFERON

5 38 73 1+2+3+4

For complete coverage in the N File you must:

Select subject term (Thesaurus) by default or ST. Books that have been indexed by Thesaurus terms will be picked

up by the subject term. (V series accessions with holdings at one or more

NASA libraries are subJect-indexed by

Thesaurus terms; the remaining V series

accessions must be located through other

access points).

0 Search the LT fields by entering SELECT

LT/ .... The acronym LT includes all textsearchable fields.

o Search UTP or ATL for document titles

that may appear in the D File.

o Select AX or TX for the terms that may

appear in the D File.

If you follow these rules the total hits for the D and F

Files will always equal the total hits for the N File.

The 38 hits for INTERFERON from File N are displayed in a

compressed format (SF ACC,POT,YER,UTL) on Page 4.

Welcome to

John Wilson

John Wilson has joined the staff of NASA Headquarters'

Systems and Retrieval Section and is in charge of policy and

planning for bibliographic activities. John is also serving

double duty a_ principal NASA contact for RECON users. He

came to NASA from Department of Energy, Germantown, after

serving in both the technical Information and the environmental programs of the department.

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ENTERm

KACC,PDT,YER,UTL

FORI_tT-DEFINITION ACCEPTED.

DISPLAY eS/4/4-1S OF 38

77K44475 UTTLa IMNUNOREOULRTORY ACTIVITY OF INTERFERON

74KSB716 UTTLm DIRONOS]S OF PRECLINICAL VIRAL ILLNESS ANO PROPHYLAXIS

AOAZNST VIRAL DISEASE

74U7S779 UTTLs CHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY

79&24449 79/04/29 UTTLs [NDUSTRY'S NEU FRONTIER IN SPACE

74At565t 73/t2/88 UTTLI INACTIVAT[ON OF HUMAN INTERFERON BY BODY

FLUIDS

72A18867 71/4B/ee UTTLm ENTERAL flECHANISMS OF BLOOD SELF-PURIFICATION

69A42080 60140100 UTTL! PRODUCTION OF INTERFERON IN NICE - EFFECT OF

ALTERED GASEOUS ENVIRONMENTS.

00V2t472 498S mm INTERFERON mm AND ee INTERFERON ee

INDUCERS, CLINICAL APPLICATIONS /

8GV45956 498S mm INTERFERON ee !

79_48466 1979 me INTERFERON *a SYSTEN /

78V4349t 1978 HUNAN em INTERFERON, ea PRODUCTION AND CLINICAL

USE /

7SU4642S t97S |NTERF ERON, COLLDOUE TENU # LYON, LEG 6, 7, 8 _ANVIER

4969 SOU$ LES AUSPICES DE L'I.N.S.E.R.N ....

77U28813 4976 m_ INTERFERON mm AND ITS CLINICAL POTENTIAL /

7SV633S3 1975 EFFECTS OF INTERFERON ON CELLS, VIRUSES, AND THE IMMUNE

SYSTEfl z

7SU462SS t97S ANTIVIRRL MECHANISMS /

ENIER:

DISPLAY eS/4/t6-3B OF 38

7SU47837 1974 PRODUCTION AND USE OF mm INTERFERON mm FOR THE

TREATNENT AND PREVENTION OF HUMAN VIRUS INFECTIONS1

75Pt372S 4974 ;NTERFERONS 1- 11

74VI4BSS 1971 BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FOLYNUCLEOTZDESI

73U36S41 4973 mm INTERFERON mm V TEORZI I PRAKTIKE NEDZ T SINY.

ENGLISH mm INTERFERON1 mm THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

73V22963 4973 INTERFERONS AND me INTERFERON mm ]NDUCERS.

72V43986 1978 VIRAL INTERFERENCE AND me INTERFERONS mm

72V32263 4978 mm INTERFERON1 mm

72V24434 t968 mm [NTERFERONs me CIBA FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUfl

DEDICATED TO &LICK ISAACS:

72V21572 1969 mm INTERFERON, ma

72V493S3 1968 INTERFERONSI

72V15175 1967 INTERFERONI

76N776S2 7S/BEBE UTTLs THE EFFECTS OF ANTIVIRAL SUBSTANCES ON THE

GROUTH AND PROTEIN SYNTHESIS OF HUMAN CELLS

78N7774t GE/OR/RR UTTLz AN INTERFERON-LIKE INHIBITOR [N THE TISSUES OF

MICE ACUTELY INFECTED MZTN LYflPHDCYTIC CNORIOMENINOITIS VIRUS

88N18268 78/tt/89 UTTLs FEASIBILITY OF COflNERCIAL SPACE MANUFACTURINO,

PRODUCTION OF PHARRACEUTICALS. VOLUME 3z PRODUCT DATA

GONSS267 78/14/09 UTTLs FEASIBILITY OF CONflERCIAL SPACE RANUFACTURINO,

PROD4JCTION OF PHARNACEUTICALS. VOLUME 2z TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

ENTERs

DISPLAY e5/4/31-38 OF 38

O_NtB2&& 78144/|9 UTTLm FEASIBILITY OF CDNflERCIAL SPACE MANUFACTURING,

FROOUCTION OF PHARMACEUTICJM.S. VOLUME 4m EXECUTIVE SIJI_ARY

77N28724 76/e3/Et UTTL: STABILIZATION STUDIES ON HURAN INTERFERON

76N24877 75/42/34 UTTLm THE EFFECT OF HYPERBARIC OXYGEN AND HELIUN ON

VIRUS REPLICATION ANO HOST PRTHOLOOY

76Nt4769 75/es/ee UTTLm THE INDUCTION OF INTERFERON AND SPECIFIC

SMALLPOX IMMUNITY BY ORAL IMMUNIZATION UITH LIVE ATTENUATED POX VIRUS

7SNI44#B 74/BII/ee UTTLa THE EFFECT OF SYNTHETIC HOMOPOLYMER POLY IeC

ON THE SYNTHESIS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS, PROTEIN AND

PB5/4/4-38

| PeS/4/t-38

mmmmm END SEARCH mmmma

SEARCH TITLE INTERFERON/FILE W

DATE/FILE $4-16-8S/N

SEARCH BY ECKERT

REQUESTOR

I STREET ROOM 486 C

CITY/STATE FACILITY

TOTAL ELAPSED TIME IS 8GS.$S MIN.

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N/ A

4ahonal Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

8O/5

MAY 1980

CONTENTS

Title Sort of NASA Library Network Accessions

(VIOK Series - Books) - Effect of Title Prefix

Title Search on NASA Library Network

Abbreviated Statistical Breakout of the NASA

Data Base as of December 31, 1979

PAGE

1

Title Sort of NASA

Library Network

Accessions

A title sort of File Collection F (VIOK Series or books) often

produces two discrete sorts - a lower-case sort, a to z, followed

by an upper-case sort, A to Z. An initial reaction to these

double sorts is to lay blame upon cataloging errors but this

is not the case. Titles not preceded with a Title Prefix begin

with a capital letter. The title preceded with a Title Prefix

begins with a lower-case letter. Therefore, two separate sorts

are created for the document titles, using the SORT command

(SO (Set #)/TTL).

For many accessions, the use of a '_itle Prefix" is cataloged

for titles whose initial word is the article "A" or "The." When

the Title Prefix is cataloged (using the mnemonic TPX), the word

is retained on the file but is not used for sorting or display.

Figure I portrays a title sort by using a Specified Format ACC,UTL.

Figure 2 portrays the same sort by using a Specified Format

ACC,TPX,UTL. The double or triple spacing between the Title

Prefix and the second word in the title should be noted.

Title Search on NASA

Library Network

For a title search of NASA Library Network accessions, use the

entire title, up to 63 characters, but not the title supplement.

Use all of the words including "stop words" and Title Prefix

type of words.

When searching a title whose publication date is 1977, use a

LIMIT ALL for 1977 to date; e.g., LA 77-80. The entire file must

be searched if a title whose publication date is, say 1971, because there is no way a searcher can ascertain the accession

year for the data base.

Another method of book title searching and a short treatise

on Stop Word philosophy will be presented in the June issue.

RECON operational problems may be d_rected to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scienttf,c and Techmcal Informal,on

Facility ,n Bali,more. Maryland. (Telephone (301)-796-5300

ext 286) or Washington. D C (Telephone (202)-621-1910

exl 286) Other problems, suggest,ons and comments may be

directed to John Wilson (Telephone (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washmgton. D C 20546)
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79VS0387 rteu Penguin ¢lCtlor_py of tlecteonlcs /

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79v36S91 r_ew Aogtt'$ ?_el4_Pus of the [ngllsh

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?SV49t34 OlcttonlPy of ipoIteG physics,

79¥39_33 I)etPole_ otctlonlry /

79¥28|I? Ol©¢lorWpy o_ IDotsny /

79v_S3Sg S_orteP Oxforo [n01tsh Ot¢tton_ry on

[OvIS?01 OlcLtomiry of Oeology. h_s_o_lcll _lnCtDles.

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79V_3a0 Ot¢|lort4py Of han_eO effects ir_ ilwl In

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?9VI406S Olctton4ry of Dhoto0rlP_|¢ Oct /

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o,cttonlr¥

7gv3861S £+rcraft te¢_lc&l dlc|lonary J

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kr_ogennO I lek_nt_e, [nglt_ [e_llsh-_u_$tl_

Otct+onaPy o_ pefetgeri_lon Ir_l low le_utPItuPI

technology /

79VSC374 alctloMry of thm _cwIt /

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?t¥3]134 S c_mePIe _tItlOna_y fop $o+s¢=o1$ /

?lv:l]80 The coN:fit 0I_OPO Ot¢tIomlry of OWhPent ?iV]IS|| The mfss_elleP's d|CTtohilry.

[_llfsh.

10¥1_141 The I_lttllh_ll ¢¢xumer¢lef dlItfO_l_¥ /

?lV41f34 • _lItlimelry Of eppltl4 _yel¢l.

?IV]011? • dlCtlO_ery Of _oteny / ?gVS0_l? The +tim Pe_gufn df¢tto_lPy O[

eteItronfos /

10¥15701 S Of ItfOmlry of geology.

71V36S91 The _ew moQtt*s Theslur_$ Of t_e [_glleh

Iinsulge t_ Ot©tlonl_y fomm.

?tVI3384 The 0fotfonePy Of hU_sehola hlht• •

helpl /

?IVSI]3] The petPofl_ OtItfO_lr¥ /

79¥26260 • dlItlCml_¥ Of _et_e_ltlO$ /

?IV_SSSI The S_O_t_P Oil[tO [nSttSh Ot¢Ifo_lPy Im

hfstoPlIel I_t_¢fOlls;

7t¥10309 • OlItlonee¥ Of moiseS :

?!V26310 S Of Itto_ePy of filmed PffeItl eli[ lew$

I_ ¢hemtetry, physfoI, erl_ mlth@m&tlC$+

?tVI4005 • Of ItlOnlr¥ Of photogrephl¢ UP! /

?1Y$037• the OfctlOne_y Of the Occult /

71¥]301f • OlItfonlPy Of the [_Pooeen [¢o_om1¢

COme_lty /

?lVf0724 • _l¢lfonlry of the Ffowerfr_ Dfe_ts Ifl

l_ola /

79YII370 The e_cycIotDee_f¢ _lctfonaPy Of

OhOtOgrlpRy /

71V26364 IOOrevlltlO+, Ofc|iofl&ry

?lV_g?42 AcronYms. f_Itlllllml. [ ac,orevlello_s

_+ctlO_$ry :

?qv38GlS •lr¢rlft te¢_nl¢ll Olctton_ey /

79V3_876 _qglO-russkt I SIovsr p[ k_OIOOII R[ I f

kr_CennO I lekhnlk© £_QIt$_ [ngll_h._uSSt_

O+_tlOnl_y Of re_rlge_flon a_O Iov tc_poPaturl

tec_oIoly /

79V]617] _k_uIt|C_'S _e_ C_yes [ng_lSh*SD_tSh ehO

Spl_SIh*[flO1fSh dtIt_O_lPy.

?lV42?gl Astronoml¢ll dlItto_lry.

?t¥•4S31 The lllelltrlteo OfcttOtqlry Of ?tV]4;St 14111" inO vine mikfl_ t I lu.trlltlr¢l of¢lte:[_',eP¥

ele¢t Port f ¢1 / /

S_" .4(.C,TPx., uT/... FT,'+m 9,,,,#,.,,. _._ on

T[_INI*, 8? P•O[ f lIT[US l- 30 OF _50)

FIGURE

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RECON User's Bulletin

Abbreviated Stati stical Breakout

Table I contains the population and percentage breakout

of the major accession series of the NASA data base as of

December 31, 1979.

NASA DATA BASE (DOCUMENTS)

STAR-N10K

IAA-AIOK

OSTARE-N70K

LSTAR-XIOK (Incl. CSTAR)

OCSTAR-X70K

All Others

Dec. 31, 1979

441,000 29.5%

587,000 39.2%

145,000 9.7%

81,500 5.4%

140,500 9.4%

102,000 6.8%

1,497,000 100.0¢

CPA (MIOK)

2,300

ASRDI IFire-DIOK)

4, O00

SPECIAL SERIES

R&DCS File (KIOK)

14,200

ASRDI (Cryo-D3OK)

7,000

RTOPS (WOK)

7,OO0

ASRDI (Mech/Struc.

Failure D5OK)

800

TECH BRIEFS (BIOK)

8,150

Books - V1OK

Books - VIOK

Periodicals - VSOK

NALNET (NASA LIBRARY NETWORK)

(W/Holdings)

(LC-HARC II)

TABLE I - NASA DATA BASE STATISTICS

71,200

272,100

7,500

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RECON User's Bulletin

National Aeronaut,s and

pace Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

8O/6

JUNE 1980

CONTENTS

Contractor Change

GTE/Telenet Services for Dial-In Users -

Coming Soon

RECON User's Hanual - Revision 3

Page

1

1

Contractor Change At one minute after midnight on Sunday, June 8, PRC Data

Services Company took over the operation of the NASA Scientific

and Technical Information Facility at Linthicum Heights,

Maryland, after a two-month transition operation working with

Informatics. No change in RECON services occurred or is expected.

GTE/Teienet Services

for Dial-In Users

In the near future, GTE/Telenet services will be available for

all Dial-In users outside of the Washington area. Information

of a general nature about Telenet services will be contained

in later RECON User's Bulletins. Specific information, e.g.,

users' passwords, will be disseminated by the Facility through

special correspondence to each authorized user.

RECON User's Hanua]

Revision 3

A new RECON User's Hanual (Revision 3) was completed on Hay

30 and is undergoing review. The manual, which contains all

the changes promulgated by RECON User's Bulletins since Revision 2, will be distributed to the field within the next

60 days.

Changes in the manual are as follows:

1. The command mnemonics were reduced and simplified.

2. All terminals accept the same mnemonics.

. The HELP and EXPLAIN commands have been combined by

emphasizing the HELP command and eliminating the

EXPLAIN command.

4. The DISPLAY and ITEH commands have been combined by

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore, Maryland, (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext 286) or Washington, D. C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext. 286) Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-755-3465, NASA

Headquarters, Code NST-42, Washington, D. C. 20546).
RECON User's Bulletin n .qA

emphasizing the DISPLAY command and eliminating the

ITEH command.

5. Format 4 and 5 specifications have been consolidated,

eliminating format 5.

6. The SPECIFY FORHAT and FORMAT commands have been combined, eliminating the FORPIAT command.

7. Usage of the LIHIT ALL command has been simplified.

8. A new END BYPASS command mnemonic has been created.

9. A new BEGIN BYPASS command mnemonic has been created.

10. The hyphen has been omitted between two-word commands.

11. A slash is permitted as the ending character of a

parameter string.

12. The slash requirement at the beginning of a LIHIT ALL

command has been eliminated.

13. Provision has been made for releasing set 99.

14. Direct entry into a selected file collection with a

BEGIN BYPASS is permitted.

15. A set or search may be limited by file.

16. New commands have been added--CURRENT, LIHIT RELEASE,

ORDER, QUERY DISPLAY, and SEARCH.

NOTE: The promised treatise on Stopword philosophy will

appear in one of the monthly bulletins shortly.

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Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

80/7

JULY 1980

CONTENTS

Selecting Subject Terms That Contain an Embedded

Slash (/)

Specify Format Nomenclature - Acronyms vs Numerics

RECON User's Manual - Revision 3

Jane's All The World's Aircraft - Sample Search

on NALNET

Page

1

1

2

2

Selecting SubJect

Terms that Contain

an Embedded Slash (/)

Several subject terms are found in the NASA Thesaurus which contain an embedded slash (/); V/STOL Aircraft, Airborne/Spaceborne

Computers, Halls (Language), Input/Output Routines, and others.

The field mnemonic ST/, MJ/, or MN/ must be specified when selecting from the subject term fields. The term may also be selected by

an EXPAND followed by a SELECT of E6.

Examples: S ST/V/STOL AIRCRAFT

S MJ/V/STOL AIRCRAFT

S MN/V/STOL AIRCRAFT

X V/STOL AIRCRAFT

S E6

A pure SELECT on this type of term will result in SEIO4:TERM NOT

IN DICTIONARY.

Specify Format

Nomenclature -

Acronyms vs Numerics

Specify Format instructions may be given to RECON by acronyms or

numerics. Care must be exercised if instructions are given by

numerics if a set contains several diverse accession series. For

example a Specify Format command of 1, 9 for STAR, IAA, CPA would

display the accession number (ACC) and the publication date (PDT).

If a Tech Brief accession was in the set, the "9" would request

the unclassified title (UTL) instead of the publication date. The

safest method is to use the acronyms when several series are contained in the set. See Appendix C of the RECON User's Manual.

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientihc and Technical Informal,on

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext. 286) or Washington. D C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext 286) Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

directed to John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington. D C 20546)
RECONUser'sBulletin

REEON User's ManualRevision 3

The new RECON User's Hanual (Revision 3) is

but,on to the field on or before August 15.

tions on the new manual, after field review,

to John Wilson, STIB/NST-42.

scheduled for distriComments or suggesshould be forwarded

Jane's All The

World's Aircraft -

Sample Search on

NALNET

A title SELECT, S TTL/'JANE'S ALL THE WORLD'S AIRCRAFT,' will

result in the message SEIO4:TERM NOT IN DICTIONARY because of

the apostrophes in JANE'S and WORLD'S. A title SELECT, with

blanks where the apostrophes should be, will work e.g., S TTL/

'JANE S ALL THE WORLD S AIRCRAFT'. A more interesting or rather

a more enlightening way as far as Jane's products are concerned

is to simply search on JANE, S TTL/JANE, and sort by title.

Using an SF, ACC, YER, UTL; CLN; HLD, items 13 through 31 are

shown in the accompanying figure.

_0VI4142 1979 daml's ell the voe tO'a aircraft. 70Vl5615 19-- dal_l'a all till worlO,I literati.

1979-80 / TLSO1d32 l SSa*ISS?

Tt_Oi.d33 l_J?9-|O AVAIL: / FLIGHt

AVAIL: / LANGLEY

79VT7243 1979 dana's all the world's aircraft.

_970-79 I

TLSOI.J33 1978-79

AVAIL: / LANGLEY/ NASA HQ.

AVAIL

79V17_S 1978 Jane's all the wortd'a ttrcraft. -

TLSOt.d32 197A-79

/ FLIGHT/ GOOGARD

AVAIL

79V]2048 1977 Jane's all the wOr ld'C airCraft.

1977-78 /

TtSOI.d33 1977-7|

/ LANGLEY/ NASA HI).

AVAIL;

18V2'074 1909

TLS01.J33 1S09

/ LANGLEY

den|'s |1| the wor lO'a aircraft.

78V21075

TLSOtd33

ira|L: / LANGLEY

1909 dane's all the world's aircraft.

78V2v072 1972

tgT_-?=,

TLSOIJ33 1973.72

IVAIL: / LANGLEY

dane'$ el| the world'S aircraft,

78v21073

196S-_.

TtSOld33

AVAIL: / LANGLEY

1967 dene'I III the carla's atr_r|ft.

AVAIL

78v1S613

TLS01 d32

: / 'LJGNT

$9-* dane's all the world's aircraft.

,692- t 9_1

AVAIL

78V_5604

tLSOld32

; / FLIGHT

IV*- Jana'c all the wOr la's Clrcraft.

1aI.19_

78V15634

TLSOI.J32

AVAIL: / FLIGHT

19-- dane'l all the worlO's aircraft.

7|VtS(iO1 IS-. darle'a ell the vorla'a aircraft.

TtS01.d32 1954-19S5

AVAIL: / FLIGMT

7MVl5602 19-. Jane's |ll the merle'| aircraft,

TtSO1.g32 I S_S-SSSQ

&VAIL: I FLIGHT

77v4148S 1976

TI_OIJ33 1976-77

AVAIL: / NASA HQ.

dane'l oil the _ortd's alrcrcft.

70VlgSGT lg?S daf_41"l all the uorIO's aircraft,

TLSO1,d33 1975-76.

AVAIL: / LAkGLEY

76v47g24 19?4 dane's all the iorIO'l aircraft.

TLS01 d32 1074-7S

AVAIL: / dOHNSON/ LANGLEY/ NASA frO.

73Vt0316 1970 dane's ell the _orld'a aircraft.

1970o71

TL_O_.d33 1970

AVAIL: / GODUAqD/ JPL/ LANGLEY/ UALLOPS

7MV4S1_3 197M

1970-79 /

UCIO.d3S 1978-79

AVAIL: / LANGLEY

dlnt'l ¢Oml)at aul_Dort Oqulpment,

78V24633 197S

/

U_4.N3S

AVAIL: / AMES-ATL

darle'l dlctlol_ary Of military terlla

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RECON User's Bulletin

NatK)nal Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

8O/8

AUGUST 1980

CONTENT$

Review of the Highlighting Feature on RECOH

UFOIs and UFOLOGY - Sample Search on NALNET

News Features Shuttle Launch

Regular RECON News

Suggested Bulletin Items Always Welcome

Page

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2

3

3

Review of the Highlighting Feature on

RECON

Titles in the VIOK series (books) and the VSOK series (periodicals) are highlighted according to the search terms used. Highlighting is the bracketing by double asterisks of the term or

terms searched.

Highlighting in the document series, File Collection D, occurs

only in the abstract. The sample below was retrieved from the

text search on the abstract field for "packet switching."

The command was: SELECT AX/'PACKET SWITCHING'

ENTERs

OIOPLAY t012/4

79A38606 ISSUE 46 PAGE 296S CATEGORY 32 70100100 44 PAGES

UNCLASSIFIED DOCURENT

UTTLt SURFRAflE SUITCHING IN DATA COIqI'IUNICATIONS

AUTHz A/FOSCHINI, O. 5.1 B/0OPINATH, R.1 C/HAYES, 3. F. P_l C/(BELL

TELEPHONE LASORATORI(S, INC., HOLROEL, N.3.)

INI ;TC/USA/'TO_ PROCEEOINOS OF THE INTERNATZONAL TELEHETERXNQ CONFERENCE,

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., NOV(FlEER q4-46, 4978. (A79-30676 46-32) PITTS|UAGH,

PA., IHSTRLRIENT SOCIETY OF AHERICA, 497a, P. #e9-422.

/uconHuNICATION HETUOflKS/eOATA TRANaRISSION/ePULSE conI_JNICATION/m

SMZTCHINO THROAT

/ BUFFERS/ GRAPHS (CHARTS)/ flATHERATICAL ROOELS/ TIRE DIVISION

RULTIPLEXINO

(AUTHOR)

AN ALTERNATIVE TO e. PACKET SUITCHINO, ee DESIaNATED AS SUOFRRIq[

SUITCHING, IS STUOIEO. IN THIS TECHNIOUE THE TRAFF|C FLOUING |ETUIEEN A

PAIR OF NODES IN THE TRRNSPOAT NETgORK IS O|V(N A FIXED CCMPRCITY BY N(RMS

OF TIRI[ DIVISION RULTIPL(XINO. THIS FLOM RETM(EN TMO NODES, VISitED AS A

SINGLE CORRODITYo RAY CONSIST OF PACKETS FRON HANY DIFFERENT TERHXNALS OR

PORTS CONHECTED TO A NOSE. THE ADVANTAGE OF THIS TECHNIOUE OVER

CONVENTIONAL ee PACKET SgITCHZNO me LIES IN SlflPLICITY OF SMITCHING

AT TRNI)Efl NODES AND IN SIRPLICITY OF OPERATION, PARTICULARLY IN FLOU

CONTROL. THE DISADVANTAGE OF SUOFAARE SUITCHIN6 IS THAT LESS EFFICIENT USE

IS HAO( OF TRANSMISSION CAPACITY. AN RMAILYSIS OF THE TECHNIQUE IS HAll)(

MITN THE AIR OF OUANT|FY|NG 0(LAY PERFORHANC( AND BUFFERING REOUIRED. A

PRELXflINARY STUOY OF THE RELATIVE SWITCHING CORPLEXITY OF PACKET ANO

9UOFRAHE SWITCHING IS UNDERTAKEN. NtRIERICAL RESULTS INGICATE THE RELATIVE

REJtlTS OF EACH HETHOO.

HA381

HINSI

A|AI

ASSe

RECON operational prCldem may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext. 286) or Washington. D C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext 286) Other problems, suggestions end comments may be

directed to John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington. D C 20546)
RECON User's Bulletin

UFO's and UFOLOGY There is very little material on UFO's In the File Collection D;

but the NALNET collection contains 137 items, most from the MARC

tapes. To search File Collection F, EXPAND UFO and SELECT E6-E19.

The last page of the 137 items on UFOns Is shown below, after it

was sorted by publication year (SORT I/YER). The specified format

Is ACC, YER, UTL. Note the popularity of the subject - 8 books

in publication year 1980, 13 in 1979, and 19 in 1978.

90VIIIIH llTl Clot* o¢op II I_IIT Itl ItmtP•

Of 19SO /

TlVlltil_• IlTll UFO-P_ inaawm :

'/'0VIS304 19TII UP0 |$P :

_l_fl03TI iOTI UFOo. • OCgSwttlfll: O_I_ /

?8VM9t3 :OTI lots MUFCU_ UFO ST1noo*_

IDP_,_IIIMI•. D4ytlet. 0I_IO. firmly n • _, llYO /

TIIV•_ | TO tOT• U f O I_HJlt I :

TOV41TSO 1•TO Of_lcOl| gutlM tO U'O •i_tllqm :

1_V41C_O 1iT1 UPO-¢OntlCl :

91_*98 _OTI U,O I_¢Ol_ /

',llV341LT9 lOT0 ¢r*eel_o• f_ UfO's /

TOy 'n MI*I eOTO UF0'• I

'IrTV:HHL111 00T0 ill MOUI U'0'• :

TTV_T04 10T0 WOP|U Of _nmL /

T_II2_ IOTO mollm*n _th, WIS_t O•tP_t• aM

UF0e /

OOVM]61 lOOP• UFO'S ... Or• the T 'iV' (q)llT :

WIN•I| 1OTO UFO'Ph ibl_Mlln. |1_1111_ TM U.F.O.

Ime,,_lmwn /

I10V1140111 IDTO UFO*• •el LmSle_O vl.4)m_e

n6twmm.•cltl JnSe te_ /

SIT NO. IR_ClITPTION

1 IIIT ITII |O-Ill LT/UFO

8 1117 139 ICmf Ol/f|• /

TININ•L IT

00VI0|10 lOT0 Ill•r• UF0'• I)vq_ NPIIn•tOP /

TgV42JO 1DTD IIonu•l IOI t_felO0 • /

TtV•0ql•! 10,O UF0 lepta /

99V3S031 tOT1) UF0. sl0_tlnOS, lams,n@e. •rig

abc_¢ I t N :

911V$21_4 1999 heltc_otoe--UPO _ountoP ovo_ 0_lo

/

Tev•0TqUI 10TO UF0 m _ tM UOetav0w.ol

SCIB_t I Ot /

TIW2SO•8 SOT9 TOt•I U'@ Ote_v /

91W:P431111 lOT0 story Of U,0e /

TOys•e04 10911 U,O W :

?0vSO_Pg 10TO UFO's. • D0sto_tol hlotO_y fPo_

onttQulty to tho I_'oNnt /

0OV$O31HI 1000 U,O'•_

00V3494_ 1000 Ufo_l. Ue_a_tt. UnS_h4_ :

|0V_7_4 11H)0 UF0 CPosh/t_o|Plov•l •y_Cl_cme :

00vtl)llO0 1000 Ilokl_ U'O• /

00VteTO0 19iS0 U'0 qmcycDoPo_to /

T0v4S440 llHl_ lncy¢lWt• of UFO's /

91)V)4010 1000 UFOs /

W 1000 0_oo_vtnql UP0• :

I_114101 0090 SO•ca re•on•tOt• W 10to U4_

m_

PdGi 4 IIT|a_ IC_- !|T Of IJ_P|

News Features

Shuttle Launch

The small amount of material on UFO's in the document collection

stems from the fact that most UFO materials have been written by

persons, organizations, or groups other than NASA and/or its

contractors.

You have no doubt seen the shuttle launch announcement on the

RECON News:

IToS DEFINITE:

SHUTTLE TO FLY HARCH 1981

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RECON User's Bulletin

Regular RECON News

Suggested Bulletin

Items Always Welcome

This is part of a drive directed by the NASA Administrator to

assure shuttle lift-off by early next year.

There is considerable activity related to RECON that is not of

the type to be reported in the Bulletin, or needs to be announced

before it is issued. An effort is being initiated to announce

these in the regular RECON News. Items will generally run a few

days only, so try to look at HELP NEWS everyday.

Send your suggestions for announcement, special searches that

could be described, etc., to:

Mr. P. F. Eckert, Manager

Reference and Retrieval

P. O. Box 8757

BWI Airport, Maryland 21240

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Space Adm_nistrahon

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

80/9

SEPTEMBER 1980

CONTENTS

HELP Command Updates

Category Sort

A Few Remarks about Stopwords

Telenet

PAGE

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HELP Command

Updates

In the past, the word "format" in RECON terminology has had two

meanings, causing some confusion among users, particularly new

users. Henceforth, "format" will refer to Formats 1, 2, 4, and

6, used when DISPLAYing, PRINTing, or TYPing citations. (See

pages 4-59 and 4-60 of the User's Manual for descriptions of

these.)

In Appendix C of the User's Manual there are lists of the fields

contained in a Format 2 display of citations from various files.

These lists can be obtained at the terminal by entering HELP

FIELDS (for an index of lists by file name), then HELP FIELDSn,

where "n" is a digit from 0 to 9 which is chosen to correspond

to the file of interest.

Note that, previously, the commands used were HELP FORMATS and

HELP FORMATSn.

We hope that this change in terminology will help clarify the

use of formats. Please call the RECON Coordinator if you have

further questions. Future RECON User's Manual Updates will include this change.

Category Sort

A Few Remarks about

Stopwords

When sorting by category, be careful of a set with pre-1975

accession-year items and 1975 and post-1975 accession-year

items. A set to be sorted should be broken into two sets, one,

1968 to 1975, and the other, 1975 to date. You are again reminded that the NASA subject category scheme was expanded from

34 to 75 categories on January 1, 1975.

Stopwords became necessary with the development of computerized

index preparation, particularly text indexing. Under manual

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext. 286) or Washington. D. C. (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext 286) Other problems, suggest,ons and comments may be

directed to John Wdson (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington. D C 20546)
RECON User's Bulletin lU/LRA

indexing procedures, the term 'stopword' was little used. For

example, if a periodical or a book title contained the phrase

'communications satellites', the term itself would most likely

not be a subject term entry. Instead of being labeled a

'stopword' it was not picked up as an index term - it was

simply a nonselected index entry.

With the onset of computerized text indexing (and text searching), scores of stopword lists were developed. Lacking textbooks or authoritative literature on the subject, each organization needing stopwords developed its own list. A major criterion for early listings seemed to be length. One list, prepared in 1967, contained 1340 stopwords (the listing was entitled, "List of Words Prevented from Indexing").

The NASA stopword lists are contained in Appendix I of the

NASA/RECON User's Manual (Revision 3). File D has 227 stopwords; NALNET (Books), 437; and NALNET (Serials), 45. In retrospect, it would have been better if all files were limited to

about 11 to 14 stopwords. There are 10 or 11 words in the

English language that account for about 25 percent of any text,*

and they should be treated as "insignificant", "function", or

stopwords.

The letter "A" and the rest of the alphabet are NASA stopwords.

This means that the phrase VITAMIN A cannot be searched. The

word "GOES", the past tense of to go, is a NASA stopword.

Accordingly a text search on GOES, (Geostationary Operational

Environmental Satellite), results in a "no-hitter." The word

AMERICA is a stopword in the NALNET books series, but only

since 1975.

The lesson here is to be wary of stopwords in text searching.

If you ever have the task of developing a stopword list for your

organization, keep it short and have it completed before any

documents or books are entered into your computerized data base.

.... P. F. Eckert

Telenet Telenet packet switching communications channels will be implemented on a gradual basis for Dia1-1n users outside of the

Washington/Baltimore area in October. Dial-ln users will receive a special letter containing instructions in October from

the NASA/RECON coordinator. In addition, there will still be

ten (10) ports available for non-Telenet Dial-ln users. The only

devices that may currently access the RECON system on a Dial-ln

basis are ASCII TTY types running at 300 bps, or 30 cps.

* The Codebreakers, p 445, The MacMillan Co., New York, 1967

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Space Admnstrahon

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

80/10

OCTOBER 1980

CONTENTS

Accession Series Definitions

REC0N Coordinators

Searching Abstracts with a Phrase or by

the Proximity Hethod

Welcome to Buford L. Smith

PAGE

1

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aHUTI'LE LAUNCH

1981

Accession Series Definitions of the NASA accession series are contained in

Appendix G of the NASA/RECON Systems User's Hanual - Revision 3.

Valuable information such as coverage by years, type of indexing,

e.g., major, minor, text, etc., is also contained in that appendix.

This information is also available to the terminal user through

use of the HELP command. By entering HELP or HELP SUE, or HELP

(your name), a list of items which RECON is prepared to clarify

is displayed on your screen or teleprinter. Specifically note:

FILE CONTENT-A and X800

" " -B and X802

" " -C and X804

i, i, -D and X806

ENTER HELP FILE CONTENT-A or HELP X800 and you will receive

explanation text. If your series definition does not appear

for FILE CONTENT-A, enter B, C, or D until it does.

By entering HELP FILEINFO, you will receive additional information concerning Accession Series range.

RECON Coordinators Pat Brooks and Jennie Campbell have joined Hike Horiarty and

Pam Barrett to provide intensive monitoring and support of

RECON operations.

RECON operetional problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext. 286) or Washington. D C (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext 286) Other problems, suggestions, and comments may be

directed to Buford Smtth or John Wdson (Telephone {202)-

755-3465. NASA Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washmglon.

D C 20546)
RECONUser'sBulletin

Searching Abstracts To insure complete text-search coverage of all the STAR or LSTAR

abstracts, a searcher must use the acronym AL in addition to AX.

AL is the search mnemonic for analytic primaries, or "mother"

documents. The use of AX by itself will bypass phrase searching

in the analytic note (ANN) field of a mother document. The following example will indicate that the abstract in a mother document

is coded into the ANN field and the abstract of the first "daughter"

or analytic subsidiary is coded into the abstract (ABS) field.

DISPLAY lilN61il IFII_I INVALID SET NIR_ER

ININ2764711 ISSUE 40 PRU( 2445 CATEGOflY 34 APTII: AGRRD-CP-274

1S8N-92-035-1121_7-4 81/Of/NN 386 PAGES RAZlq.Y IN ENGLISH: PAIlTLY IN

FRENf_N UNCLR$SIF ZED OOCUIqENT

UTTL: TUNIIULENT |(XJNO_WCY I.ATI_RS: EXPEIlIRENTS, TH(0AY /41410 flODELZNG ---

CONfEilENC[

COItP! AO_ISORy UROUP FOR RI_IlOSPRC[ RkSEARCH _NO DEV(LOPN[NT, I_UILLY-SUA-S(TI_

(FRANCE). _IL.NT|S IUtPI NC RtTIRF MI4

PIlESENT(D Ar THE FLUID DYN. PANEL SYRP., THE I_kOU[, 24-2_ SEP. 4979

_t3Sl /mC01_ilESSl0LE FLOW/aCONFEIlENCES/eFLUU VISUALIZ&TION/mlNC0flPIlESSIOL[ FLUW

/ITUIlliULENT IIOL_OAIty LATER

NINbl / IIQUNO_WCY LAYEIl TNANSXTION/ FLOM DISTNIIIUTZON/ FLUtd I_ASLRt(NCNT/ FLQ_

VIStMtLIZATION/ FLUID DTNMIICS/ VQRTACES

ANN$ EXPEIlII_NIAL AND TH(OI_(TICAL NESEANUN DIRECTED TOt_ADS UNOt[RSTANOING THE emm

TURBULENT BOUNdarY LAYEIl IN |OTH INCORPNESSIBLE AND CORPRESSI|LE FLUID

FLOt_ IS PIlEB[NT[U. SPECIFIC TOPICS DISCUSSED INCLUOEz C0fl(DUTER NOOELING

TECHNI0UES, COHt_IlENT VUI(rEX S(IlUC:UI_[S, FLO u VISURLLZATION, HOT UZii[

_IK/flETRY. ee NCdf.IHEAIl VQATEJ( INTEIlACTIONS, el O(COFIPOS|TION OF

FLUCTU_TIN_ FLOU FI(LDS, N/t) TUIB_ 0UlIINO, UR INFI(DIATELY FOLL0_INO

TNNiSIT 10N.

USE AL/ TO seorch the /mflyti¢ Note field for i)hreses

ENlEile

D|SPLAY ImN27640/2

OIIN27db4011 ISSUE 4H PAGE 241_ CATEGORY 34 N/Nf/IN; 3S PROES

UWCLASSIF IEO 0OCUf_NT

UTTLs [XPEIlI_NTAL NETHQOS 14140 TECNNIDUES IN T_R|ULENT O0UNOARY LAY[Il RESEARCH

AUTNI A/C0flTE-IlELLOT, U.

CORPs ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON (FRANCE). CSS$ (LAO. DE RILCANIOU( DES FLUIDES.)

dtV/tIL.NTIS SAPS NC A47/Iqf AM4

IN RORItO TURIlUL(NT IIOUNDARY LAYEIlS 3S P (HE NtNI-27A47 40-34)

PIA3SI /I)I_EDEA/(CN INtNAGEHENTluTE(:HNQt.0Oy ASSES_q[NT/*ITUIq0ULENT IIOUNOA_Y LAYER

NINSx / FLON HEAStiltEHENT/ FLOU VISUALIZATION/ 9IGI_L PROCESSING/ TRANSDUC[IlS

AliNe il.£.S.

THE STAI'E-0F-THE-ANT OF II[THO08 AND TECNNIRU(S AWfILNGLE TO |NVI_STIGRT[

TURIlULENT ilDUNDANY LAYERS 16 61JIlVt[YED. THREE SPECIFIC AREAS /tAr DISCUSSED:

UR31[CTIVES OF lily LRYEIl REEERRCN, TRANSDUCER TECHNI_JES, AND S10NAL

PilOCEliS I NG TECH_IOUES.

USE AX/ TO seerch the /_stroct field for phreses

Welcome to

Buford L. Smith

The search mnemonic TX, however, covers all text searchable fields

for the abstract family - for single words only, not for phrases.

i

Specifically, TX/ covers the Abstract field, the Analytic Note

field, and the old Notation of Content.

Buford L. Smith has joined the staff of NASA Headquarters' Systems

and Retrieval Section and is now the principal contact at NASA for

RECON User's activities including training.

He came to NASA Headquarters after a seven-year assignment at the

NASA Computer Center in Slide11, Louisiana. Prior to that, he

served in the computing facilities at the Harshall Space Flight

Center for ten years.

Buford is a graduate of Loyola University, New Orleans, with a

Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.

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NhSA

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

80/11

NOVEMBER 1980

CONTENTS PAGE

NASA/RECON UserJs Pocket Guide for File

Collection D (Documents)

Update Your Stored Searches I-3

New RECON Users

SHUTTLE LAUNCH

MARCH 1981

NASA/RECON User's

Pocket Guide

Update Your

Stored Searches

Several copies of a recently developed pocket guide to assist

both new and experlenced RECON users have been included in the

mailing of thls issue of Bulletin. We hope that each RECON

operator wi11 find the guide useful. Extra copies are available

upon request.

The NASA/RECON system now provides all users in the field a

readily available technique for monthly updating of all stored

searches. Without this technique, it is difficult for field

users to determine what has been added to the files from month

to month.

Each four weeks the accession numbers that have been added to

the data base are readily identified at the Facillty. Those

accession numbers are used in a stored search for immediate

retrieval by terminal ID43 and may be used by others as limits

for all users' stored searches. The update accession numbers

are given a stored search name of STORE followed by the first

three letters of the month covered by the stored search ....

STOREOCT, STORENOV,.STOREDEC, etc.

As the stored updqting searches "belong" to ID43, it is necessary that any other user give proper identification to the

central computer by Indicating the ID number; thus, any user

may execute the search with the following command:

QUERY EXECUTE STOREOCT (ID43)

RECON operational problem may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore, Maryland, (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext. 286)or Washington, D. C. (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext. 286). Other problems, suggestions, and comments may be

directed to Buford Smith or John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-

755-3465. NASA Hesdouarters. Code NST-42. Washington.

D.C. 20546).
RECONUser'sBulletin

Stored searches have been designed to limit the citations in

Set 99 to the proper range of accession numbers for all fiie

series that have been added to the NASA Data Base within the

preceding four weeks.

To update, the analyst EXECUTEs his or her stored searches of

immediate interest. Upon completion, the analyst enters the

results into Set 99 with the KEEP command.

K Set No., e.g., KEEP 12

QUERY EXECUTE STOREOCT(ID43) wil! limit the accessions in Set

99 to the latest range.

Caution: Set 99 will only hold 1052 citations. We therefore

recommend that the user, prior to execution of the stored

search, limit the search results to 1980 (or 1981) by entering

LA 80 (LIMIT ALL 80)

or

LA 81 (LIMIT ALL 81)

Try It on AIRSAFE(ID43) stored on the D File Collection. The

results are shown below.

lllTI[It:(IUI[RY DISPL4Y STO_[OCT(IO43)

LIST Of COlIM/IOS IN STOIIE0CT

01 L 99/llOIA/4?)&7-S120!

02 L 99/80/MI3OZ72- 32322

03 L 99/8o/K/lOmT- ! 9999

Ok t. qJg/80/M/T5322-76167

05 L 99/801x11010)- 10Z_

06 L 99/IW)/X/7MlgO*pS437

o7 L 99/_iO/V/4427_- SO2 _,

Thls is how QUERY

DISPLAY STOREOCT(ID43)

Ioo ks.

L IR IT-ALL ACCEpTIr O

[m'En:qUl[Iw I[XEOJll[ AIItSAIrE(1043)

IL 22) 22) ST/AIA(2131F'T SAIr[Ty

2L 2 2 UTP/AIACI.M'T t+l SAFI'TY

3L ]1 ) AX/AIIICIL4Fr .4.1 SAFI[Ty

4L 33 33 ST/ACClDEIlT l_lOll

SL I_l I) ST/A I III_IUMPT

6L 74 222 l*3*)_S

END SE_JIDI¢_ AIItSAF[ EXECUTION

|NTER:R[I[P &

KI[I[P 6

EIITI[R:QUERY IX[CUT[ STOAI[OCT(IDll))

71. O )99/IM/AI47)&7-$120 !

8L S 5 }99AIO/lq/]IO272- ) 2322

91. 0 ) 99/80/'K./10187-19999

lot. 0 ) 99/80/lll 7 $322 - 761,7

llL 0 ) 99/101Xl I O103- I OI1P)

IlL O ) 99/li0 IX/?ldl90 * 7 Sk) 7

13L 0 ) 99/IMIv14k2?&* SOlS&

Thls will appear on

the screen after QUERY

EXECUTE AIRSAFE(ID43)

is transmitted,

This will appear on

the screen after SET

STATUS is transmitted.

[liTER: OISPI.AY 811

OlSP_Y nA/I/l*S

801132297 k1131757 _01131473 80131376 IMIq30_IS

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RECON User's Bulletin N/LRA

New RECON Users

NASA intends to pub|iclze and promote the Stored Search feature

of RECON. Additiona] examples on the stored search feature

will be highlighted in the next few Bulletins to help develop

skills in using this command. In summary, with our monthly

limits, you should find your tasks considerably eased.

The NASA RECON user community is being expanded to include

additional NASA contractors, unlversities, and other government

agencies doing NASA work. To insure smooth startup activities

and to a|low adequate time for effective training, NASA is

currently limiting the addition of these new users to ten per

month. The first ten wil] be added in December. These users

and the current dial-in users will be offered Telenet at

57.00 per connect hour. Other charges for the dlal-in

contractors group wi|l be in accordance with the prevailing

rates contained in the agreement between the Faci|ity and the

user. Telenet charges for each user will be billed by the

Facility and not by GTE/TeIenet.

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RECON ,User's Bulletin

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

80/12

DECEMBER 1980

CONTENTS

Editing the Stored Search

RECON Training

Season's Greetings

PAGE

SHUTTLE LAUNCH

MARCH 1981

Editing the

Stored Search

RECON Training

Any Stored Search held on NASA/RECON data files can be LISTED,

DISPLAYED, EXECUTED, or EDITED at any RECON terminal--Provided

the USERID of the search "owner" is known.

No edited version of a Stored Search can replace the original

search, nor can it be purged, unless the user has the same

USERID as the creator, i.e., the search can be replaced, or

purged, only at the originating terminal. However, a user can

store an edited version of any Stored Search by use of the

QUERY SAVE command. The user simply gives the edited version a

different name and his USERID becomes the "owner" of the search.

Command sequences in a Stored Search may be ALTERED; they may be

DELETED; and additional commands may be ADDED to the stored

sequence.

Here's a way to change a Stored Search command, and a way to add

two more SubJect Terms to the Stored Search AIRSAFE (ID43).

See Page 2.

The first group of new users will be trained at the Facility on

January 13 and 14, 1981. The group will include Bell Aerospace

TEXTRON, Fluidyne, Georgia Tech, Honeywell Electro-Optics Center,

Lockheed-Georgia, Lockheed Palo Alto, MIT Lincoln Lab, Perkin-Elmer,

and Vought.

RECON qDermll_wwlproblem may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific lind Technical Inlormlition

Facility in Baltimore, Mliryllind, (Telephone: (301)-796-5300

ext. 286) or Washington, D. C. (Telephone: (202)-821-1910

ext. 286). Other problems, suggestions, lind comments may be

diractIKI to Buford Smith or John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-

755-3465, NASA Hlilid(lulirters, Code NST-42, Washington.

D.C. 20546).
IEO'T'NO ;STORED SEARC I

,. C,ANG,NG AC MMAND

2. ADD,NGNewCOMMANDS

BB BEGIN SEARCH BYPASS

EXPLANATION

ENIER:QUERY EDIT AIRSAFELID43J

HFGIN MODIFIUAIIUN_ IU AIH_AFE

LNTER:_UERY DISPLAY

L_[ UF CURMANDS IN MODIFIED AIRSAFE

_4 S AIRCRAFT SAFETY

82 S UTP/AIRCRAFT *+i SAFELY

83 S AX/AIRCRAFI *+I _AFETY

_4 S ACCIDENT PREVENTIUN

_S S AIRCRAFT

86 C H4+_2+_3+_4._5

ENTER:QUERY ALTER S/S AIRCRAFT DESIGN

t.INL 5 ALTERED

ENTER:SELECT AIRCRAFT RELIABILIIY

4 t628 4628 SII/AIRCRAFT'RELIA_ILITY

TELL COMPUTER YOU WANT TO EDIT

AIRSAFE

IN EDIT MODE SEARCH NAME NOT

REQUIRED

CHANGE COMMAND #5 TO S AIRCRAFT

DESIGN

ADD TERM

ENTER:SELECT 5AhEIY DEVICE_

2 4543 45t3 SI_SA_TY DEVICES

ENTER:OUERY DISPLAY

LIST OF COMMANDS IN MUDIFIED AIRSAFE

_4 S AIRCRAFT SAFELY

B2 S UTP/AIRCRAFT *+4 SAFETY

83 S AX/AIRCRAFI *+4 SAFELY

04 S ACCIDEN[ PREVENTION

85 S AIRCRAFT DESiUN

86 C ni+n2+_3+H4*_S

B? S AIRCRAFT RELIABILITY

_ S SAFETY DEVICES

DISPLAY AIRSAFE COMMANDS AS

MODIFIED

ENTER:COMBINE _6+_/*a8

COMBINE 6+7*8

ENTER

04 S

e2 S

03 S

U4 S

fdS S

06 C

e7 S

_8 S

09 C

CM48/: INVALID SET NUMBER ARGUMENT

DON°T LET THIS BOTHER YOU. WE ARE WORKING

WI_ COMMANDS - SETS WILL BE GENERATED

NN NIIFRY EXECUTE

=QUERY DISPLAY

LISI UF CUMMAN05 IN MODIFIED AIRSAFE

AIRCRAFT SAFELY

UIP/AIRCRAFT *+4 SAFEIY

AX/AIRCRAFT *+4 SAFETY

ACCIDENT PREVENTION

AIRCRAFT DESIGN AIRSAFE(ID43) AS MODIFIED

n4+_2+U3+_4*aS

AIKURRPI H_LIA_tLITY

SAFE'IY DEVICES

Bb+=7*=B

ENTER: _UERY REPLACE AIRSAFE

AVERY SAVE AIRSMOD

REPLACES STORED SEARCH IF IT IS

YOURS. KEEPS SAME NAME

SAVES MODIFIED SEARCH AS

AIRSMOD-AIRSAFE REMAINS STORED

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RECON User's Bulletin

Season's Greetings The NASA Scientific and Technical Information Branch at NASA

Iteadquarters joins the NASA STI Facility in transmitting

Season's Greetings to all of our friends in the field.

Me YXCl ristrn 

NASA STI FACILITY WILL BE CLOSED DECEHBER 25 and 26,

and JANUARY 1.

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