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NASA STI

Bulletin

1981-1983

(NASA-TM-II0559) NASA STI

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1981

I ASA RECON User's Bulletin

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

kientific and Technical

Information Branch

81/1

JANUARY 1981

CONTENTS PAGE

Augmentation Processor installed at the Facility

The ORDER Command

New Stored Search for your Use

Index for 1980 RECON User's Bulletins

1

1

1

2

SHUI"rLE LAUNCH

MARCH 1N1

Augmentation Processor

installed at the

3cility

The ORDER Command

New Stored Search

for your Use

In December an Augmentation Processor was installed and placed

in operation. The new processor, an IBM 4341, has a 4-megabyte core, complementing the IBM-360/65 with its 3-megabyte

core. Disk storage for the two computers to work with at the

Facility now totals 5.26 billion bytes.

The document ordering feature of the ORDER Command is currently

undergoing joint evaluation by the Lewis Research Center and

the Facility and will be in a test mode for the next several

months. Please refrain from using the ORDER Command for documents at this time.

A new stored search entitled NASAPUBS has been entered into

the system and is available for your use. It selects all of

the NASA SP's (Special Publications), RP's (Reference Publications), and CP's (Conference Proceedings) except for the

NASA SP's in the 7000 series - the Continuing Bibliographies

and Special Bibliographies. These series, e.g., Aerospace

Medicine and Biology, Aeronautical Engineering, Energy,

Earth Resources, etc., had to be omitted from the stored

search because of their large accession number populations.

The new stored search will be exceedingly valuable to your

operation when a client needs a few quality documents or

references on NASA's efforts in the subject matter requested.

RECON operational problen_ 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 Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington.

D C 20546)

RECON User's Bulletin

index for 1980

RECON Users

Bulletins

NASA SP's, RP's, and CP's represent the cream of NASA's

documentation efforts. The new stored search will select

them off the file in a few minutes, merging them into a

collection set that can be matched against a subject of

your choice.

Our sample below matches the NASA special publications

against the "telecommunication" family.

To use the stored search enter BEGIN, or BB and follow

with: Q EXECUTE NASAPUBS(ID43).

The following figures demonstrate its use followed by a

display of the 6 hits using SF RN,UTL;ACC.

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The Index for NASA RECON User's Bulletin 80/1 through

80/12 is forwarded as a separate entity with this bulletin

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c)_;GINAL PAGE IS

OF POOR C;_'.r_,LtTY

I. ' T

Index to NASA Recon User's Bulletin

\

January - December 1980

80/I through 80/]2

A

Abbreviated Statistical Breakout

-NASA Data Base

Accession Removal

Accession Series Definitions

B

m

Bulletin Items Welcome

C

Category Sort

Contractor Change

Current Session Status Command

-Single Line

Current Session Status (CU) Command

D

Data Bases On-Line

-1979

Dial-In Terminal

-Enhancement

Dial-In Terminal

-Reduction Of Output Volume

Dial-In Users

-GTE/Telenet Services

E

Embedded Slash (/)

-SubJect Terms

F

Frequency Command

-UTS 400 Terminal

G

GTE/Telenet Services

-Dial-In Users

H

HELP Command Updates

Highlighting Feature

-RECON

Issue

80/5

80/2

80/IO

80/8

80/9

80/6

80/3

80/2

80/2

80/4

8o/!

8o/6

8O/7

80/1

80/6

80/9

80/8

3

1

i

3

I

1

I

I

IAA NOT (Notes) Field

Index

-1979 RECON User's Bulletins

N

m

N File Collection

-Subject-Search

NALNET

-Sample Search

NALNET

-Sample Search

NASA Corporate Sources

-Stored Search

NASA Data Base

-Abbreviated Statistical Breakout

NASA Library Network

-Title Search

NASA Library Network Accessions

-VIOK Series/Books

-Title Sort

NASA/RECON User's Pocket Guide

0

Output Volume Reduction

-Dial-In Terminal

R

RECON Coordinators

RECON Highlighting Feature

RECON News

RECON Search Performance

RECON Training

RECON User's Manual

-Distribution

RECON User's Manual

-Revision 3

RECON Users

-New

Removal Of Accessions

Issue

80/1

80/2

80/4

80/7

80/8

80/4

80/5

80/5

80/5

8o/11

80/I

8o/10

80/8

80/8

80/3

80/12

8O/7

80/6

8o/11

80/2

2

2

2

I

3

1

I

S

Sample Search

-NALNET

Sample Search

-NALNET

SEARCH EXPRESSION, SORT, SPECIFY FORMAT

-Training Exercise

Searching Abstracts

Shuttle Launch

Single Line

-Current Session Status Command

Specify Format Nomenclature

-Acronyms vs Numerics

Stopwords

Stored Search

-NASA Corporate Sources

Stored Search Editing

Stored Searches

-Updating

Subject-Search

-N File Collection

Subject Terms

-Embedded Slash (/)

T

m

Telenet

Title Search

-NALNET Book File

Title Search

-NASA Library Network

Title Sort

-NASA Library Network Accessions

-VIOK Series/Books

Transmission Rates

U

UNIVAC 0774-96 Model 800 Terminal Printer

Updating Stored Searches

UTS 400 Terminal

-Frequency Command

W

Welcome to Buford L. Smith

Welcome to John Wilson

Issue

80/7

80/8

80/3

8o/Io

8o/8

80/3

80/7

80/9

8014

8o/12

8o/11

8014

80/7

8o/9

8O/2

8o/5

80/5

80/I

80/2

80/!1

8011

80110

8014

2

2

2

2

2

1

1

1

1

1

1-3

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i

2

2

3

1-3

l

3

NA.RA

I tk:x Aeronautk::sand

 / :lr rUstrat xl

and TechnicM

InformmUon Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

81/2

FEBRUARY 1981

¢ONlrEe_rll PAGE

NASA/RECON Access Policy

NASA/RECON Advanced Training Plans for

CY 1981

SHUTTLE LAUNCH

1981

NASA/RECON Access

Policy

Questions have arisen concerning the policy for allowing

online access to NASA/RECON. Access is now being offered

to NASA contractors and Federal agencies that assist NASA

in its mission. It is anticipated that access will be extended to others at a later date. Current access charges

are $120 per year, $15 per connect hour, and $.03 per citation, printed at the Facility; these charges will be reviewed annually.

NASA/RECON Advanced

Training Plans

Basic RECON training has been given to 20 new users during

January and February. Basic training programs will be

offered throughout the year as new users join the RECON

user community. Our advanced RECON training program for

the remainder of CY 1981 has been carefully coordinated

with the basic training program and is tentatively scheduled

as follows:

April 14 - 15j. 1981 (Tues. S Wed.)

At the Facility for LaRC, LeRC, JSC, KSC, HSFC, NSTL,

Draper Lab., Pratt & Whitney (East Hartford), WFC, and RSIC.

RECON qNm_k_md II_mbleme may be directed to the RECON

Coocdinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

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

ext. 286) or Wuhington, 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 Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington,

O.C. 20546).

RECON User's Bulletin

May 18- 19, 1981 (Mon. _, Tues.)

At JPL (Pasadena) for JPL, Ames, DFRC, WESRAC, and TAC.

May 20 - 21, 1981 (Wed. & Thurs.)

At Rockwell (Downey) for Rockwell, General Dynamics,

Boeing, Hughes, Northrop, and Martin Marietta.

October !3 - 14, 1981 (Tues. & Wed.)

At ARAC (Indianapolis) for ARAC, KASC, NCSTRC, Battelle,

General Electric (Valley Forge), KY STAC, FL STAC, and

KERR.

Advanced training at the aforementioned locations will

include sessions on the use of the STORED SEARCH feature,

use of File Collection N, NALNET, and advanced exercises

using the KEEP and SORT commands.

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NASA R

qatior_l Aeronautics and

pace Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

CON User's Bulletin

81/3

MARCH 1981

CONTENTS PAGE

Listing of New NASA/RECON Users - May 1978

through March 15, 1981

NASA/RECON Reference List Evaluation

Sheets (NHQ Form 110)

1-5

SHUTTLE LAUNCH

1981

Listing of New

NASA/RECON Users

A listing of new NASA/RECON users grouped by U.S. time zone

areas is presented in the attachment. The listing is provided with the expectations that certain information retrieval

problems in the field may be solved quickly through informal

interchange among field RECON users. Supplemental listings

will be published in future bulletins as the user family

becomes larger.

Please note that the llsting does not include users from

the NASA Centers, the NASA Industrla---TAppllcation Centers,

the Department of Energy, and others who have been linked

to NASA/RECON prior to May 1978.

NASA/RECON Reference

List Evaluation

Sheets

A NASA/RECON Reference List Evaluation Sheet (NHQ Form 110)

is Included for each search made by field users. For system

improvement, the NASA Scientific Technical Information Branch

again requests that these forms be returned to NASA Headquarters

after the lists have been prepared. Please ask the ultimate

user of the search to complete the form and return it to your

RECON office for perusal or analysis; and thence to NASA Headquarters through use of the pre-addressed and franked mailer.

RECON ollzerationel 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 Smith or John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-

755-3465. NASA Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington.

D. C. 20546).

RECON User's Bulletin

New NASA/RECON Users - May 1978 through March 15, 1981

Ms. Solange V. Mclntire

Hr. Fred Gaspar

Mr. Arthur Fried

Ms. Helen Abbott

Ms. Martha Liles

Ms. Lorraine Pratt

Ms. Edith Moore

Mr. Robert Anthony

Hs. Susan Clifford

Mr. David Brown

Ms. Jeanne Balikos

Hr. Stanley A. Elman

Mr. H. W. Jones

Ms. Virginia Crabtree

Ms. Fumiko G. Oiye

Ms. Jean Davis

Mr. Urban J. Sweeney

Pacific Time Zone (12)

Washington

The Boeing Co.

Seattle, WN.

California

Lockheed

Palo Alto, CA

Systems Control, Inc.

Palo Alto, CA

SRI International

Menlo Park, CA

The Aerospace Corp.

Los Angeles, CA

Hughes Aircraft

Los Angeles, CA

Hughes Aircraft

Culver City, CA

Lockheed-California

Burbank, CA

Northrop Corp.

Hawthorne, CA

TRW

Redondo Beach, CA

Rockwell International

Downey, CA

General Dynamics

Convair

San Diego, CA

206-733-0584

415-493-4411

Ext. 5041

415-494-1165

Ext. 350

415-859-9580

213-648-6738

213-648-4668

213-391-0711

Ext. 2615

213-847-7185

213-970-4136

213-536=2150

213-922-3807

213-922-1522

714-277-8900

Ext. 1073

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RECON User's Bulletin

Hr. Jay R. HcKee

Hs. Sallye W. Smith

Ns. JoAnne Gardner

Mr. George Machovec

Hs. Georgiana Hillyer

Ms. Martha Adamson

Hs. Hariys J. Johnson

Hs. Maro Theo]ogides

Hs. Gay D. Goethert

Hs. Effie Boyd

Mr. Fred W. Todd

Mountain Time Zone (5)

Colorado

Hartin Marietta Aerospace

Denver, CO

University of Denver

Denver, CO

Science Applications, Inc.

Englewood, CO

Arizona

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ

New Hexico

Air Force Weapons Lab.

Kirtland AFB, NM

Central Time Zone (5)

Minnesota

FluiDyne

Hinneapolis, HN

Honeywell Systems

and Research

Minneapolis, MN

Tennessee

Arnold Eng. Dev. Ctr.

Arnold AFS, TN

Texas

USAF School of Aerospace Hediclne

Brooks AFB, TX

303-973-5512

303-753-2422

303-733-6900

602-965-7608

505-844-0250

612-544-2721

612-378-4238

615-455-2611

Ext. 7604

512-536-3721

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RECON User's Bulletin

Mr. Thomas P. McGinty

Ms. Hope Coffman

Ms. Kathleen A. Long

Ms. Janice F. Bower

Ms. Margaret D. Wood

Ms. Lynn Savitzky

Ms. Reta Yeh

Mr. Lester M. Breslauer

Mr. Larry Chasen

Ms. Denise Rich

Ms. Marie Knup

Ms. Mary Pfann

Texas (Cont.)

Vought Corp.

Dallas, TX

Eastern Time Zone (17)

Massachusetts

C. S. Draper Lab., Inc.

Cambridge, HA

Honeywell Electro-Optics

Lexington, HA

MIT Lincoln Lab.

Lexington, HA

Connecticut

Perkin-Elmer Corp.

Norwalk, CT

United Technologies

E. Hartford, CT

New York

Bell Aerospace TEXTRON

Buffalo, NY

Pennsylvania

General Electric

Philadelphia, PA

United Engineers &

Constructors, Inc.

Philadelphia, PA

\

New Jersey

RCA Astro-Electronlcs

Princeton, NJ

214-266-4660

214-266-5168

617-258-3555

617-862-6222

Ext. 310

617-862-5500

Ext. 7198

203-834-4949

203-727-7120

716-297-1000

Ext. 7011

215-962-4700

215-422-3000

609-448-2247

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RECON User's Bulletin

Ms. Olive Whitehead

New Jersey (Cont.)

RCA Gov. Comm. Systems

Camden, NJ

609-338-3488

Ms. Suzanne Levitas

Ms. Donna Hickling

Ms. Linda Dodson

Ms. Elsie Cerutti

Ms. Diane Cunningham

Maryland - Washin_tonp D.C.

OAO Corp.

Beltsville, MD

301-937-3090

Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc 301-951-2786

Bethesda, MD

National Bureau of

Standards

Washington, D.C.

202-921-3451

Ms. Jean Kirkland

Mr. James B. Dodd

Mr. Charles K. Bower

Mr. Ted Kopkin

Georgia

Georglna Institute of

Technology

Atlanta, GA

Lockheed-Georgla

Marietta, GA

404-894-4528

404-424-2928

Ms. Cheryl D. Higham

Florida

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Daytona Beach, FL

904-252-5561

Mr. William M. Buckel

Ms. Elleen W. Stephenson

Ms. Anne Foreman

Ohio

Battelle

Columbus, OH

Air Force Wright

Aeronautical Lab.

W. P. AFB, OH

FTS 976-6312

513-255-3630

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NASA

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

cientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

81/5

MAY_1981

CONTENTS PAGE

NASA/RECON Advanced Training Plans for

October 1981 - Change in Dates

Title Sort by NASA Library Network

Accessions (Books) - Elimination of

the Double Sort

NASA/RECON Advanced

'aining Plans for

_ctober 1981 -

Change in Dates

The two-day advanced training session scheduled for October

13-14 (Tues. and Wed.) at ARAC in Indianapolis, as announced

In NASA/RECON User's Bulletin 81/2, has been changed to

October 14-15 (Wed. and Thurs.). The change was required

because Honday, October 12, Is Columbus Day. A slippage of

one day means that no one will be required to travel on a

holiday.

Title Sort of NASA

Library Network

Accessions (Books)

Jn NASA/RECON User's Bulletln 80/5 of Hay 1980 the double

sorting of book tltles, a lowercase sort from a to z followed

by an uppercase sort from A to Z was discussed. Lowercase

titles were caused by use of a Title Prefix - mcstly for the

letter "A" and the word "The".

The sorting algorithm has now been modified to Intermingle

initial lowercase and uppercase characters of the first

alphabetical character of the first sortable word in the

title. See example of the current title sort of the book

file on page 2.

RECON operational problem may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility 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 Buford Smith or John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-

755-3465, NASA Headquarters, Code NST-42, Washington,

D C. 20546).

RECON User's Bulletin

Title Sort of NASA

Library Network

Continued SEARCH NO. 009

SEARCH TITLE TITLE SORT

DATE/FILE OS-13-Bt/F

SEARCH BY PFE

REQUESTER PFE

STREET FACILITY

CXTY/STATE BNI/MO 21_40

USER IO |041

TERMINAL eS 4-23-11

TOTAL T|ME PER COMMAND FOR THIS USER

RECON TIME RECOIl TIME RECON

COMMANO MIN NO COMMAND MIN NO COKMAND

BEGIN SEARCH 0S6.19 O COMBINE OOO.OO O PRINT

EXPAND 000.00 0 LIMXT 000.01 I LIMIT ALL

DISPLAY O00.GO S KEEP OOO.OO 0 END SEARCH

SELECT 001.10 I TYPE OOO.O0 0 ERROR

D|SPLAY SET 000.00 ! MESSAGE 000.00 0 |TEMS PRZNTEO

TOTAL ELAPSED TIME IS 003.75 MZN.

TIME

MIN NO

000.02 4

000.00 O

000.8S 3

000.00 0

3S2

SET NO. DESCRIPTION

I 1317 13S9 TTL/DICT|ONARY

2 178 179 )i/gO-B1

3 178 I?G SORT 02/UTL /

Set 3 is SORTED by UTL

IOVS_IS3 ConcIsI Rgsslln-EnQIllh scieritlfJo

dictio_lary for students end reseirch worlterR :

11V13728 Conoensed ¢hemt¢li dictionary.

gO¥38090 CyclopeOic mllOlcal DictionAry Ta_kir's

Cyclopedic _dtcal dictionary /

iOV20831 _tl systems dtctlcnlry :

ROV2S2Sl Oepartllmnt Of Oefortsa dlctioniry of

mll|tary attd assoGlateo terms :

lllVlD209 devil's DR dictionary /

lOVl2SOI Olct Ionary catalog.

BOVS43M2 dictionary cataloQt_e /

OiY12018 O|ctionary catalog of thl LlOrery of the

Center for ADplleO Linguistics, Wishlngton. D.C.

OSV134aO Dictionary ¢atilo9 of the Reselrch

Llbrerlla of the New York Pt_DIiC LSPrary. 1911-1971.

BlVtO061 Dictionary for computer languages /

gOVSlSB9 Oictlormry OF accounting /

gOVSSBO? Oicttormry Of American-EnB|ish ulgige.

BOVS|337 Oictionary OF arChitectural at_ot-avlltione.

signs, end Symbols.

80V40287 Oictto_uiry Of biomedical m:ronyle •

OlctlO_alre d#lcronyitee bi¢mqKilciux :

81VllgS7 dlctlo_iary Of British Ships end alalnen /

SF ACC,UTL

TERMINAL B5 PAGE 3 (ITEMS

81VI8616 dictionary of Canadian economics /

80¥47153 Olctlm_ary of civil _lneerlng /

|lV10235 Oictlonlry Of 08ta prOclistng /

80V34397 ' OIctlonery of oinOIklure /

00V52325 OIctl_ry Of earth sci_¢a.

Englii_t-PrenCh. French-E/tgll sh •

Olvl_?60 OlCtlC)Wtary of ecOnGeDIcs end ¢oelooroe,

Engltl_. Fralr_¢h. Arabic *

80V22363 DIctioa_ry of elicErJcaI anQIheorlno /

80¥4043! Olctlonary of electronics /

01V21003 Dlctiormry OF engineering _ technology :

BOVIB44B OIctlonery oF envlrotwRntal a_lheerlflg aM

ralat_ eol enoee :

BOV3tBS3 Dlctlormry Of onvlro_wental protectl@n •

81VlOB74 OIctimlmry of fire teChnalOgy /

00V25214 DiCtiOnary of foreign terms /

B1¥21630 Dtctlor_ry of gaming, mocJalllng •

simulation1 /

80VIE?01 dictionary of geology.

81¥15900 Olctionery of lind surveyors dlrld local

¢artographere oF _'eat II_ltaln _ Ireland. IBSG'1850

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RECON User's Bulletin

Nat,3nal Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

81/6

JUNE 1981

C 0 NTE NT$

The EXPAND Command

New On]|ne Users group In Central/Eastern

Kentucky

PAGE

1

2

The EXPAND

Command

In RECON training courses the use of EXPAND, particularly for

an author search, has been stressed. Names may appear In a

variety of ways In the data base. A basic difficulty in consistency in an author's name Is that names are taken as they

appear on a document; and an author's name may be presented

differently in several reports he has written or co-authored.

In many cases a cataloger cannot be sure that he/she is dealIng with the same author. Decisions as to how to treat given

names, Initials, surnames, compound names, etc., are usually

made for several reasons, reflectlng both cataloging and computer system requirements, which may not be evident.

For example, you are looking for all references by W. F. O'Brlen.

If you SELECT AU/O'BRIEN, W. F., you will find one reference.

However, if you enter EXPAND AU/O_BRIEN, W. F., you will see:

-EO6 AU/OIBRIEN, W.F. N 1 0

E07 AU/O'BRIEN, W. F., JR. N 2 0

Examination of the corporate sources and the subject matter for

these authors will Indicate that they are one and the same person.

You now have three references Instead of one. You could also have

achieved the same result by truncation:

SELECT AU/O'BRIEN, W. F.:

Another approach to explore Is to EXPAND the name without an

apostrophe; giving an additional thirteen references:

-E06 AU/OBRIEN, W.F. N 1 0

E07 AU/OBRIEN, W. F., JR. N 12 0

or a grand total of sixteen references, fifteen of which could

have been missed without an expand.

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 Buford Smith or John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-

755-3465. NASA Heaclcluarters. Code NST-42. Washington.

D C. 20546).

RECON User's Bulletin rU/LRA

EXPAND Command

Cont.

A name with the prefix Mc could have appeared prior to a rule

standardization In 1972 both with and without a space between

It and the second part of the names. Since then such names

should be Indexed without the space.

Names llke C. S. Wang Chang should be checked under Chang, C. S. W.

as well as Wang Chang, C. S.

Variations also occur in some foreign names because the translations are done according to different rules. Some translators

will transliterate two Russian letters as YA and YU, while others

transliterate the same letters as IA and IU.

For example, the author I. P. Yudenkow also appears as I. P.

ludenkow. Some translators wlll end Russian names - and other

appropriate words - with a double 1, while others will change

the second I to y, as in the case of V. V. Yabionskiy who also

appears as V. V. lablonskll.

In German names, sometimes the umlaut over an A, O, or U is Indicated In translation by the addition of an E following the

vowel. Sometimes this E Is omitted, as in the case of E. J. W.

Huller for E. J. W. Mueller. If the EXPAND command is used,

both spellings can be checked easlly.

In the case of uncertainty as to whether the two authors are

actually two authors or one with two spellings, select each

name separately. Put in a specified format: SF ACC,CO,PAA;t_TL

and display each set in format 4:

DISPLAY 5/4

DISPLAY 6/4

If the corporate sources or personal author affiliations are the

same, and the subject matter is related, then it's probable that

the two are the same Individual.

New Onl ine Users

Group

A new online users group has been formed In Central/Eastern

Kentucky. It has been tentatlvely christened as Central/Eastern

Kentucky Online Users Group, or C/EKOUG.

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New Onllne Users

Group

Additional lnfomatlon on the group may be obtained from:

Hs. Stephanle Allen, Reference Librarian

University of Kentucky Hedlcal Center Library

HS-135 Chandler Hedical Center Library

Lexington, KY 40506

Hr. Robert F. Jack, Information Services Coordinator

NASA/UK Technology Applications Program

109 Kinkead Hall

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY 40506

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NASA

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

:ierrtific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

81/7

JULY 1981

CONTENTS

Frequency Command

NASA/RECON Basic Training Workshop

New Features Requested for RECON

Telephone Number Change for RECON Coordinator

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Frequency Command The Frequency Command ls a powerful aid for developing a

search strategy In an interactive mode. However, care must

be exercised in Its use. The Frequency Command executed

against a set from File Collection D will result In a "subtask abort" if It contains an ASRDI accession (D series,

e.g., 75D10001).

As a precautionary measure, ensure that your set for Frequency

actlon is devold of "D" accessions. You may limit the set .in

question to the "D" serles and then eliminate the "D" set by

the "NOT" command; or you may limit the deslred set to A, B,

K, H, X, and W Series.

NASA/RECON Basic

Training Workshop

The next NASA/RECON Basic Training Workshop will be held at

the STI Facility on September 22 and 23 provided a quorum of

between 7 and 10 new users can be assembled. New users who

have not received any formal training are requested to inform

Hr. Philip F. Eckert at the Facility of thelr plans for the

September training sessions (301-796-5300, ext 363 or 374).

New Features

Requested for RECON

As a result of discussions during the last two training

sessions (California Groups in Hay and basic training at the

STI Facility in June), the two most desired features for RECON

are discussed below.

o Shift to 1200 Baud Rate for Dial-In. Work

Is in process at the Facility for this feature. A target date for completion of the

systems effort to make the 1200 Baud rate

an option on RECON for dial-In Is spring

1981. The actual shift to 1200 Baud will

RECON operational problems may be directedto the RECON

Coordinatorat 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 commentsmay be

directed to Buford Smith or John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-

755°3465, NASA Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington.

D C. 20546).

RECONUser'sBulletin

NewFeatures

Continued

be dependent upon the completion of a currentiy active project to convert the communications processing to a more reliable

system.

Continuous Display on a Dial-In Terminal. The

need and possible Implementation of this feature is under consideration. Future progress

and decisions concerning Implementation will

be publicized when appropriate.

If you as a RECON user have any pet Ideas or features you

think should be added to NASA/RECON, such as continuous

display, please communicate them by note to Buford Smith,

Code NST-42, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 20546.

Telephone Number

Change

Effective August 5, 1981, the RECON Coordinator's telephone

number will be changed to 301-621-2988. This ls a commercial

telephone number which is a local number from Washington, D.C.

and may be accessed directly via FTS.

To ensure uninterrupted service to the RECON user community

the current FTS number will be retained for about two weeks

following the Installation of the new number.

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National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

81/8

AUGUST 1981

CONTENTS

NASA/RECGN Advanced Training Workshop

- October 1981

Use of NASA/RECON as a Special Dictionary

RECON Challenges

Solutions to RECON Challenges

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NASA/RECON Advanced

Training Workshop -

October 1981

As announced in RECON User's Bulletins 81/2 and 81/5,

a NASA/RECON Advanced Training Workshop will be held

at ARAC In Indianapolis on October 14 and 15. The

workshop wlll be held primarily for personnel from

ARAC, NIAC at University of Pittsburgh, North Carolina

Sclence and Technology Research Center, Battelle,

General Electric (Valley Forge), NASA/Florida State

Technology Center, NASA/University of Kentucky Appllcatlon Program, and the Kerr Industrial AppIicatlons

Center (S.E. Oklahoma State University). Others may

attend; those organizations who have made reservations

for the workshop are requested to re-affirm their

reservations. Organizations planning to send one or

more representatives to the workshop are requested to

inform Mr. Phllip F. Eckert at the Facility of their

plans (301-796-5300, ext. 363 or 374).

Use of NASA/RECON

as a Special

Dictionary

Time and again Facility personnel and vlrtually all

technical information processing personnel throughout

the world have been confronted with technical terms or

acronyms that defy definitions, The acronym CAT can be

easily conquered by medlcally-orlented personne-'_ (Computerized

Axial T.omography - now called CT for Computerized _omography)

o"r by atmospheric physicists o_"meteo_ologlsts (Clear Air

Turbulence), These are the easy types because t_ey have been

listed in some dictionaries, manuals, textbooks, or

encyclopedias,

But what about those that have not been listed?

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). or to the NALNET "Hotline'" on extension 333 Other

problems, suggestions and comments may be direcled to Buford

Smith or John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington. D C. 20546

RECON User's Bulk_tin

Our first example is to find the definition of DIAKOPTICS

on RECON.

Solution

SELECT TX/DIAKOPTIC: (Root Search)

4 6 44 1X/DIAKOPTIC TX/DIAtC

OPTICS ROOT/DIAKOPTIC •.,

PRIMARY

UTTL:

UNOC:

RUTH:

MA3S:

MINS:

ABA:

ABS:

DATA BASE ONLINE

DISPLAY B4/2/2

72A2S292= ISSUE 44 PAGE 4S77 CATEGORY 3 74/88/08 7 PAGES IN

RUSSIAN UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENT

COiIPUTER METHODS FOR ANALYZING THE STATES OF COMPLEX ELECTRICAL NETWORKS

BY SEPARATION INTO SMALLER PORTIONS

DIGITAL COMPUIER CALCULATION OF COMPLEX ELECTRIC NETUORt'S DESCRIBED BY

MATHEMATICAL MODELS, CALCULATING FLOg DISTRIBUTION

A/Y, HRUSIICHOUAo E.V. PAA: A/[AYADEMIIA NAUI" UY, RAINSI'OI SSR, INSTITUT

ELEKTRODINAMIKI, KIEV, UKRAINIAN SSR)

PROBLEMY TEKHNICHESKOI ELEKTROOINAMIh'I, NO. 30, 4974, P. 20-26. IN

RUSSIAN.

/*COMPUTER TECHNIQUES/*ELECTRIC NETUORKS/*FLOU DISTRIBUTION/_(MATHEMATICAL

MODELS/*NETUORI" ANALYSIS

/ ALGORITHMS/ COMPLEX SYSTEMS/ DIGITAL COMPUTERS/ LINEAR EOUATIONS/

MATRICES [MATHEMATICS]/ SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

T.M.

** DIAt'OPT_S ** [SYSTEM TEARING] IS A M_THOD OF SEPARATING A LARq.[_

_y_T_M INTO SEVERAL SMALLER SYSTEMS, EACH DESCRIBED BY A SEPARATE

MATHEMATICAL MODEL. THE EFFECTS OF ALL OIHER SUBSYSTEM5 UN b_[;H PARTICULAR

SUBSYSTEM ARE EVALUATED, AND THE FINAL RESULT PROVIDES A SOLUTION FOR THE

EN_'IRE COMPLEX SYSTEM AS A WHOLE. KNOWN PROCEDURES FOR COMPUTER

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE m. DIA_'OPTICS .N METHOD ARE REVIEWED, AND

EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON THE USE OF ** DIAKOPTICS ** IN COMBINATION

UITII THE GAUSSIAN ELIMINATION PROCESS TO SOLVE A FLOW DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM

(IN THE BASIS OF NODAL OR CIRCUITAL [MESH] EOUATIONS.

Second Example - find the definition of PROP-FAN on RECON.

Solutlon

UTTL:

AUTtI:

CORP:

MA3S:

MINS:

ABA:

ASS:

SELECT PROP-FAN In tltle and abstract and Its

variant PROPFAN in the abstract family

4 24 24 UTP/PROP *+t FAN

2 27 68 AX/PROP *+4 FAN

3 44 22 TX/PROPFAN

58 414 4+2+3

DISPLAY DX444: PREVIOUS OUTPUT COMPLETED

OISI_LAY 04/2/42 ""

8BA3S9SO*I! ISSUE t4 PAGE 2497 CATEGORY 7 RPTI=: AIAA PAPER 8Fl-899S

[;NTII: NAS3-28614 88/86/88 t3 PAGES UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENT

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS OF THREE PROP-FAN MODELS

A/BROOKS, S.M. PAR: A/[UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP., HAMILTON STANDARD

DIV., WINDSOR LOCKS, CONN.)

HAMILTON STANDARD DIV., UNITED AIRCRAFT CORP., WINDSOR LOCI(S, CONN.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS, AEROACOUSTICS

CUNFERENCE, 6TH, HARTFORD, CONN., 3UNE 4-6. 4988, 43 P.

/*ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS/*ENGINE NOISE/*NOISE REDUCTION/*PROPELLER FANS/*

SCALE MODELS/*TURBOPROP ENGINES

/ FAR FIELDS/ MICROPHONES/ NEAR FIELDS/ SHADOWGRAPH PHOTOGRAPHY/ SHEAR

LAYERS/ SWEEP ANGLE/ TEST FACILITIES

[ AUTHOR ]

RESULTS OF NASA SPONSORED ACOUSTIC TESTS OF THREE 2 FT. DIAMETER MUDELS OF

THE PROP-FAN [A _ptALL DIAMETER, HIGHLY LOADED, MANY-BLADED VARIABLE PITCH

ADVANCED TURBOPROP] ARE PRESENTED. THE HIGHLY SWEPT MODEL DESIGNED FOR

NOISE REDUCTION PRODUCES SUBSTANTIALLY LESS NEAR FIELD NOISE AT SIMULATED

_.8 MACH NUMBER CRUISE CONDITIONS THAN THE UNSWEPT OR SLIGHTLY SWEPT

MODELS. IT ALSO PRODUCES LESS FAR FIELD NOISE AT CONDITIONS SIMULATING

TAKEOFF AND LANDING. THE NOISE REDUCTION MECHANISM IS DISCUSSED.

CORRELATION BEIUEEN HARMONIC NOISE MEASUREMENTS AND TIIEORETICAL

PREDICTIONS AND BETWEEN MEaSURED_AND PREDICTED ACOUSTIC-PRESSURE PULSES IS

GOOD. SHADOWGRAPH MEASUREMENTS WHICII SHOW THE LOCATION OF BLADE ASSOCIATED

gAVE PATTERNS WERE OBTAINED. PREDICTbO AND MEASUP, ED gAVE LOCATIONS SHOW

GOOD GENERAL AGREEMENT. FULL SCALE NEAR AND FAR FIELD NOISE IS PREDICTED.

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Third Example - find the definition of EFG on RECON.

Select TX/EFG

*N*** AUTOMATIC END SEARCH BYPASS ***u*

SEARCH TITLE

DATE/FILE BB-44-B4/D

***** BEGIN SEARCH BYPASS m_**_

DATE/FILE B-44-B4/D

PRIMARY DATA BASE ONLINE

SET NO.OF NO.OF DESCRIPTION OF SET

NO. REC. OCC. (+=OR, *=AND, -=NOT3

4

UT]L:

AU]H:

MAOS:

MINS:

ABA:

ASS:

&S 86 TX/EF_

DISPLAY 84/2/S

BBA3S4S2 ISSUE 44 PAGE 2576 CATEGORY 44 8G/g2/Gg t7 rAGES

UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENT

ELECTRON-BEAN-INDUCED CURRENT CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON

SOLAR CELLS

A/HANOKA, 3. I. PAR: A/[MOBIL TYCO SOLAR ENERGY CORP., WALTHAM, MASS._

(PI4OTOUOLTAIC MATERIAL AND DEVICE MEASUREMENTS WORKSHOP° ARLINGTON, UA.,

3UNE 44-43, 4979.) SOLAR CELLS, VOL. 4, FEB. 4968, P. 423-439.

/*CRYSTAL DEFECTS/*ELECTRON BEAMS/*ELECTRON MICROSCOPY/*SOLAR CELLS

/ ENERGY TECHNOLOGY/ GRAIN BOUNDARIES/ IMPURITIES/ ION IMPLANTATION/

POLYCRYSTALS/ RIBBONS

(AUTHOR)

THE USE OF THE ELECTRON-BEAM-INDUCED CURRENT MODE OF THE SCANNING ELECTRON

MICROSCOPE FOR _ECOMBINATION STUDIES IN POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR

CELLS IS REVIEWED. THE POTENTIAL AND SOME LIMITS OF TIlE TECHNIGUE ARE

blSCUSSED. OUANTITATIVE STUDIES AND REPRESENTATIVE RESULTS FOR

_DGE-DEFINED FILM-FED GROWTH ( ** EFO] .. RIBBON SOLAR CELLS AND

OI_'_IN0_'O_fC0_R CELLS AR--E_PRESENTED AND COMPARED. OUESTIONS

CONCERNING RECOMBINATION BY IMPURITIES AND DEFECTS SUCH AS DISLOCATIONS,

GRAIN BOUNDARIES AND SIC PARTICLES AND THE INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF ALL

THESE ARE OISCUSSED AT SOME LENGTH.

RECON Cha1lenges (1)

(2)

Find on RECON the definition or the most closely

related terms to the term OVONIC DEVICES. (Hint:

Search titles and abstracts "1to'rthe truncated

expression 0VONIC: - then use the FREQUENCY command.)

Find the deflnltlon or the meaning of TEA LASER,

using text search.

Solutions to RECON

Challenges

Solutions to RECON challenges are_ the last page. Do not

look at them until you have attempted to solve the challenges.

'o

RECON User's Bulkst_ N/LRA

SOLUTIONS TO RECON CHALLENGES

OVONIC DEVICES

4

2

3

TERM

REF

F004

F002

F903

F004

F005

F006

F007

F008

F009

F040

FO44

FO42

F043

F0t4

F01S

F016

F0t7

FOt8

FO49

F020

F024

t0 44 TX/OVONIC

t3 t5 AIL/OVONIC

t9 29 4+2

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION - SET 03 -

SUB3ECT 1ERM FREg

SWITCHING CIkCUITS ........ OO4t

THIN FILMS ................ 0008

AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTORS-- 0007

5EHICONDUCTOR DEVICES ..... 0007

COiIPUTER STORAGE DEVICES-- 0005

ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES ..... 000S

SEMICONDUCTING FILMS ...... 0805

BIBLIOGRAPHIES ............ 0003

COH?ONENT RELIABILITY ..... 0003

ELECTRIC SUITCHES ......... 0003

ELECTRONIC EOUIPMENT TESTS 0003

LOGIC CIRCUITS ............ 0003

RADIATION EFFECTS ......... 0003

SELENIDES .................. 0003

SEMICONDUCTORS [MATERIALS] 0003

SWITCHING ................. 0003

TIN COMPOUNDS ............. 0003

VACUUM DEPOSITION ......... 0003

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS ....... 0002

BISTABLE CIRCUITS ......... 0002

ELECTRIC PULSES 0002

047 CITATIONS - 00030 SUB3ECT IERMS -01

F022 ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE ...... 0002

F023 GLASS ..................... 0002

F024 LASER MATERIALS ........... 0002

FO25 OPTICAL PROPERTIES 0002

F026 PERFORMANCE TESTS .......... 0002

F027 SMITCItES .................. 0002

F028 THRESHOLD GATES ............. 0002

F027 VOLT-AMPERE CHARACTERISTIC 0002

S .........................

F030 UAVEFORMS ................. 0002

TEA LASERS

4 457 480 AX/TEA x÷4 LASER

2 $8 64 LIMIT 4/73-76

KACC,ABS

FORMAT-DEFINITION ACCEPTED.

SET REC. OCC. DESCRIPTION OF SET

I t57 400 AX/TEA N÷4 LASER

2 58 64 ]t/73-76

ENTER

DISPLAY 02/4/43-44 OF 3

76A47S48 ABS: A SIMPLE RELIABLE TRANSVERSELY EXCITED ATMOSPHERIC ( **

E,!._._.] LASER ** OPERATING UITH M_ER_fEi_(#£tI'Tf_-_AT"_'#_f-_3?-_M USING

COMMERCIAL-GRADE N2 AT 4 ATM IS DESCRIBED. PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR A RANGE

OF OPERATING VOLTAGES AND CHANNEL SPACINGS ARE PRESENTEO..THE LASER'S

PULSE WIDTH IS ABOUT 4 NSEC. BEST ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCY TO DATE IS 0.039Z

AT 8.8 I_V. AT 2t KV, 33S MICRO3OULES/PULSE IS OBTAINED. ABOVE 16.7 RP,

THE UNFOCUSED OUTPUT WILL PUMP A DY_ SOLUTION TO SUPERRADIANCE AT A

[)ISTANCE OF 4.5 M. FOR SUPPLY VOLTAGES LESS THAN 40 KV, A NOVEL

CONFIGURATION FOR PREIONIZATION IS DESCRIBED.

76A14422 ABS: ENERGY TRANSFER THROUGH ABSORBING MEDIA WITH PULSES SHORT

COMPARED WITH THE ACOUSTIC TRANSIT TIME HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED

EXPERIHENTALLY AND THEORETICALLY FOR COLLIMATED DEARS IN A HOMOGENEOUS

QIND FIELD. TWO EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES WERE USED= [t3 A LOW INTENSITY CU

L02 LASER PROBE-BEAM TECHNIOUE GIVING A CONTINUOUS RECORD OF THE LENSING

OF THE MEDIUM FOLLOQING THE TRANSMISSION OF A COAXIAL HIGH-POWER ..

lEA LASER ** PULSE AND [2) A DIRECT DETERMINATION OF HIGH-POWER

PULSE-TRAIN BLOOMING USING A IHERMOFAX-COVERED DRUM. TIlE EXPERIMENTAL

RESULTS SUPPORT THE PREDICTIONS OF A GEOMETRIC-OPTICS PERTURBATI.ON

SOLUTION AS UELL AS THOSE OF EXISTING PROPAGATION CODES. AN INTERESTING

(:ASE, ENHANCEMENT RESULTING IN A 20-30Z INCREASE OF THE ORIGINAL

NONBLOOPIED PEAK INTENSITY, IS ODSERVED UHEN THE PULSE SEPARATION TIME IS

APPROXIMATELY 4 TO 2 TIMES THE UIND-FLOW TIME ACROSS THE DEAM.

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ientific and Technical

Information Branch

81/9

SEPTEMBER 1981

RECON User's Bulletin

CONTENTS

The Primary and Alternate Data Bases - Why?

The Primary and

Alternate Data

Bases - Why?

A number of new RECON Users have asked why we

have the Alternate and Primary Data Bases. Here

is the story.

In 1973, a major problem at the Facility was computer

power or lack of It - both CPU and storage capability.

We were running out of space In the data cell and disk

pack area. Mass storage costs were still relatively

high and the chances to procure several additional

mass storage devlces were low. With an impending move,

It was deemed unwise to replace the IBM 360/50 with a

more powerful device or to add to our offIine storage.

The old computer room at College Park was already burstin9 at the seams,

The problem was simply solved by what we then called a

"data base split." On August 28, 1974, we split the

data base into two major segments.

e a Primary Data Base comprised essentially of accession years 1968 to date (1974)

(approximately 732,000 accessions)

o an Alternate Data Base comprised essentially of

accession years 1962 through 1967

(approxlmately 400,000 accessions)

\

There were several advantages and disadvantages emanating

from the data base spilt. Computer search times were

lowered because of the smaller flies. The bulk of the

search requests had "last five years" parameters that

meant only the Primary Data Base had to be searched.

The major disadvantage was the necessity to make two

searches for a bibllographlc query requiring coverage

form 1962 to date.

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

sxt. 288) or Washington. D. C. (Telephone: (202)-621-1910

ext 286). or to the NALNET "'Hotline'" on extension 333 Other

problems, suggestions and comments may be directed to Buford

Smith or John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-755-3465. NASA

Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington. D. C. 20546

RECON User's Bulletin

The search queries for the Alternate and Primary Data

Bases were different because of the indexing vocabularies.

The 1962-1967 segment Indexing was based on the old

SubJect Authority List (SAL for short). This authority

list was the predecessor of the NASA Thesaurus. It

lacked the current Thesaurus structure such as BT, NT,

and RT (Broader, Narrower, and Related Terms) and l ts

entries were based upon the singular term, e.g., Gallium

Arsenide Laser Instead of Gallium Arsenide Lasers. The

NASA Thesaurus wlth its new ground rules was completed

In late 1967 and implemented on January 1, 1968.

One other disadvantage at the time, now virtually forgotten, was the availability of the data bases. Because

of the tightness, the Alternate Data Base was only

available on Wednesday afternoons. The limited avallabllity caused a delay in delivering search results,

particularly for those search requests that were received

late Wednesday afternoons or on Thursdays or Fridays.

The searches had to be held up and mailed with a "delay

notice D' after the Primary Data Base searches had been run

and malled. We had double admlnlstrative handling tasks

when we were forced into that mode.

Shortly after moving to the BWI Airport location the

computer CPU and storage problems were solved. The IBM

360/50 was replaced by an IBM 360/65 and our disk storage

capacity was expanded. We now have some 6.2 billion bytes

of disk storage and have recently added an Augmentation

Processor.

There are no plans to merge the two bases into a single

data base similar to the one prior to the spilt. There

are also no current plans for further splitting such as

1968 through 1975 and 1976 to date. The Limit All command,

of course, fulfills all needs to limit a search for any

chronological portlon of the file, e.g., LIMIT ALL 79-81,

72-76, etc. See page 3 for makeup of two data bases.

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PRIHARY DATA BASE

File File Number

(File Collection D)

Accession Series Time Period

STAR 119 N-IO,O00 1968 onward

IAA 115 A-IO,O00 1968 onward

CSTAR 130 X-10,O00 1968 onward

OSTARE 137 N-70,O00 1968 onward

OCSTARE 136 X-70,O00 1968 onward

TB 117 B-lO,O00 ALL

RS DCS 138 K-10,O00 ALL

RTOP 139 W-70,O00 ALL

AOSR 150 H-50,O00 ALL

CPA 152 H-IO,O00 ALL

ASRCRYO 180 O-30,OO0 ALL

ASRFIRE 181 D-IO,O00 ALL

ASRHECH 182 D-50,O00 ALL

Note:

ALTERNATE DATA BASE (File Collection G)..

File File Number Accession Series Time Period

STARA 419 N-IO,000 1962-67

IAA 415 A-IO,OO0' 1963-67

CSTARA 430 X-10,O00 1962-67

SSTAR 132 X-50,O00 ALL

ASTAR 122 N-90,O00 ALL

ACSTAR 135 X-90,000 ALL

OSTAR 121 N-80,O00 1962-67

OCSTAR 134 X-80,OO0 1962-67

NTP 120 N-60,000/70,000 ALL (1962 GAP)

CNTP 133 X-60,000/70,000 ALL (1962 GAP)

LCAHB 116 A-80,O00 ALL

(1) A11Tech Briefs are in Primary Data Base because the 1963 - 1967 segment

was relndexed using NASA Thesaurus nomenclature.

(2) All Ngo and xgo accessions (administrative documents) do not contain

subject Indexing and are contained In the Alternate Data Base.

Primary Data Base Accessions ...3

Alternate Data Base Accesslons "_T

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National Aen3naut_s and

,_ce Administrataon

_cientific and Technical

Information Branch

81/10

OCTOBER1981

CONTENTS

Listing of RECON Users as of October 27, 1981 1

Cancellation of Semiannual Indexes for IAA and STAR 1

Novel Use of Frequency Command - by Leslie Whitaker 1

of Ames Research Center

NASA/RECON Basic Training Plans 2

Facillty Telephone Number Change 2

PAGE

Listing of RECON

Users as of October

27, 1981

A listing of all NASA/RECON users grouped by U.S. tlme zone

areas is presented in the attachment, New users since the

March issue of the NASA/RECON User's Bulletln are flagged by

an asterisk, RECON users at the Facllity and the STI Branch

of NASA Headquarters have been purposely omitted,

Cancellation of

Semiannual Indexes

Semlannual Indexes for IAA and STAR have been cancelled for

1982 and thereafter.

Novel Use of Frequency

Command - by Leslie

Whltaker of Ames

Research Center

In her own words, Leslle Whltaker of Ames Research Center

desires to share her novel use of RECON.

"1 recently tried a gambit on RECON which turned out

to be quite useful so I thought I'd pass it along.

Several scientists from Ames were preparing to visit

a group of aerospace companies In order to dlscuss

the appilcatlon of computational fluid dynamic research to actual aircraft design. Prior to the visits

some of the scientists spent tlme browsing through all

the normal sources of information about such companies

in order to get a picture of their current fields of

concentration. I suggested that we could give them a

profile of the work done at a glven Installation by

doing a Frequency sort on the company as "Corporate

Source" on RECON.

RECON oper=tional problems maybe directedto the RECON

Coordinatorat 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,andcomments may be

directed to Buford Smith or John Wilson [Telephone: (202)-

755-3465. NASA Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington.

0 C. 20546)

p

RECON User's Bulletin

Novel Use of Frequency

(Cont')

NASAIRECON Basic

Training Plans

Facility Telephone

Number Change

The results turned out to be well received to the

point that an additlonal person was sent In to get

a rundown on the companies she would be visiting."

NASA/RECON Basic Training sessions (2 days) w111 be scheduled

at the Facillty on December 2 and 3 If sufficient Interest Is

shown. Please communicate your Intentions to Mr. Philip F.

Eckert, Manager, Information Services Department at the

Facility, 301-859-5300, x 374.

The Maryland telephone number for the Facillty wlll change

on Sunday November 8 from 301-796-5300 to 301-859-5300. The

D.C. telephone number 202-621-1910 remains unpe-_t'urbed.

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Ms. Leslie Whltaker

Ms. Betty Sherwood

Ms. Karen Puffer

Ms. Carol Sterkin

Dr. Robert Mixer

Mr. Herb Asbury

Ms. Patti Brown

Ms. Becky Jensen

Ms. Margaret Hu

Ms. Jo Robinson

Mr. Richard Hunt

Ms. Berta Keizure

Mr. Arthur Fried

Ms. Helen Abbott

Mr. Stanley Elman

Ms. Suzanne Reed

Ms. Renee Evans

Ms. Susan Clifford

Mr. David Brown

Ms. Jeanne Balikos

Ms. Dorothy Webb

Mr. Urban Sweeney

Ms. Colleen Alexander

Ms. Jean Davis

Ms. Roberta Shanman

Ms. Nan Paik

Ms. Marie Bangan

Ms. Margaret Duncan

Ms. Kathy Wright

Ms. Fumiko Oiye

NASA/RECON Users - October 27e 1981

Pacific Time Zone (23)

CaIlfornia (21)

NASA Ames Research Center

Moffett Fleld, CA

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center

Edwards, CA

JPL

Pasadena, CA

WESRAC - Univ. of So. Cal.

Los Angeles, CA

Unlv. of Callfornia

Berkeley

Unlv. of California (LLL)

Llvermore, CA

Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.

Palo Alto, CA

Lockheed-California Co.

Burbank, CA

Hughes Aircraft Co.

Los Angeles, CA

Hughes Aircraft Co.

Culver City, CA

General Dynamics

San Diego, CA

Rockwell International Corp.

Downey, CA

Dept. of Air Force-Space Dlv.*

El Segundo, CA

U.S. Naval Ocean Systems Center*

San Diego, CA

TRW

Redondo Beach, CA

415-965-50OO

805-258-3311

Ext. 334

213-354-6911

213-741-7203

213-741-6132

415-486-6307

415-422-5825

415-493-4411

Ext. 5041

213-847-7185

213-648-4668

213-391-0711

Ext. 2615

714-277-8900

Ext. 1073

213-922-3807

213-922-1522

213-643-0443

714-225-6623

2.13-536-2150

*New User Since March 1981

Attachment -I-

Hs. Susan Gentry

Ms. Hartha Liles

Ms. Lorraine Pratt

Hs. Elizabeth Gill

Hs. Virginia Anderson

Ms. Johanna Tallman

Hs. Edith Hoore

Hr. Robert Anthony

Hr. Bill Jones

Hs. Renee Soiffer

Santa Barbara Research Center *

Goleta, CA

Systems Control, Inc.

Palo Alto, CA

SRI International

Menlo Park, CA

Cal. Inst. of Technology*

Pasadena, CA

The Aerospace Corporation

Los Angeles, CA

Northrop Corporation

Hawthorne, CA

805-968-3511

Ext. 2542

415-494-1165

Ext. 350

415-859-9580

213-356-4521

213-648-6738

213-970-4136

Ms. Solange V. Mclntyre

Hr. Fred Rasp

Ms. Shirley Gydesen

Washington (2)

The Boeing Company

Seattle, WA

Pacific Northwest Laboratory

Richland, WA

206-773-0584

509-376-5451

Hr. George Machovec

Mr. Vladimir Borovansky

fir. Douglas Jones

Hountain Time Zone (15)

Arizona (2)

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ

University of Arizona*

Tucson, AZ

602-965-7608

602-965-7607

602-626-5193

602=626-3706

Ms. Victoria Schneller

Mr. Jay HcKee

Ms. Sallye Smith

Hr. Benedict Lo Bue

Colorado (6)

NOAA

Boulder, CO

Hartln Harietta Aerospace

Denver, CO

University of Denver

Denver, CO

University of Colorado*

Boulder, CO

303-497-5571

303-973-5512

303=753-2422

303-492-7521

*New User Since March 1981

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Hr. Charles Wenger

Mr. Wil|iam Fo Rawson

Mr. A. L. Lueck

National Center for Atmos. Res.*

Boulder, CO

Colorado State University*

Fort Colllns, CO

303-494-5151

Ext. 428

303-491-5911

Mr. Waiter Rouse

Ms. Mary Kaye Galiagher

Mr. J. Arthur Freed

Mr. Keith Newsome

Ms. Georgianna Hiilyer

Ms. Martha Adamson

Mr. Joe Beltran

New Mexico (5)

Sandia Labs.

Albuquerque, NM

TAC - Univ. of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM

Los Alamos Scientific Lab.

Los Alamos, NM

AFWL*

Klrtland AFB, NM

White Sands Text Facility*

Las Cruces, NM

505-264-1080

505-277-3622

505-667-4448

505-844-0205

505-524-5642

Ms. Ruth A. Frear

Ms. Dorothy A. A11ey

Mr. G. R. Muir

Utah (2)

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Hercules, Inc.*

Hagna, UT

801-581-77OZ

801-250-5911

Ext. 2952

Ms. Margaret Willis

Ms. Joyce Plaster

Ms. Nancy Stillson

Central Time Zone (1_)

Alabama (3)

Marshall Space Flight Center

Huntsville, AL

Redstone Scientific Info. Ctr.

Open Literature & Reference

Redstone Arsenal, AL

Redstone Scientific Info. Ctr.

Document Reference

Redstone Arsenal, AL

205-453-2121

205-876-5195

205-876-5181

*New User Since March 1981

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Mr. John Frazier

Ms. Betty Guttman

Ms..arlys Johnson

Ms. Maro Theologides

Ms. Mary Bush

Dr. John Amos

Mr. Fred Goss

Mr. Carl Lauer

Mr. William Dodd

Mr. Ron Marshall

Mr. Robert E. Oliver

Ms. Effie Boyd

Ms. Della Burch

Ms. Gay D. Goethert

Ms. Julia Redford

Mr. Robert Phelps

*New User Since March 1981

Illinois (I)

Argonne National Laboratory

Lemont, IL

Minnesota (2)

Fluidyne

Minneapolis, MN

Honeywell, Inc.

Minneapolis, MN

Mississipp i (1)

National Space Technology Labs.

Bay St. Louis, MS

Missouri (2)

Univ. of Missouri at Rolla

Rolla, MO

Mc Donne11 Douglas Corp.*

St. Louis, MO

Oklahoma (2)

Kerr Industrial Application Ctr.

Durant, OK

ITPAD Innovation Center*

Durant, OK

Tennessee (2)

Arnold Eng. Dev. Ctr.

Arnold AFS, TN

DOE Technical Information Center

Oak Ridge, TN

Texas (6)

Johnson Space Center

Houston, TX

-4-

312-972-4225

612-544-2721

612-378-4238

601-688-3211

314-241-4559

314-233-6134

405-924-6822

Ext. 413

405-924-5094

516-455-2611

615-576-1157

713-483-4047

Ms. Michelie Anderson

Mr. E. C. Eze11

Mr. J. D. Haulbrook

Hr. Thomas HcGinty

Hr. Fred W. Todd

Ms. Frances B. Waranius

Life Sciences Project Division

Johnson Space Center

Houston, TX

Johnson History Office*

Houston, TX

Vought Corporation

Dallas, TX

USAF School of Aerospace Medicine

Brooks AFB, TX

Lunar ¢ Planetary Institute*

Houston, TX

713-483-2471

713-483-2838

214-266-5168

512-536-3721

712-486-2135

Ms. Hargaret Wood

Ms. Lynn Savitzsky

Ms. Reta Yeh

Hr. Alan Partridge

Mr. Joseph Hurphy

Eastern Tlme Zone (59)

Connecticut (3)

Perkin-Elmer Corp.

Norwalk, CT

United Technologies

E. Hartford, CT

AVCO Lycoming Division*

StratFord, CT

203-834-4949

203-727-7120

203-378-8211

Ext. 547

Ms. A. Del Frate

Ms. Jane Riddle

Ms. Laurie Stackpole

Ms. Linda Dodson

Hs. Bonita Perry

Hs. J. E. Lappin

Hs. Hargaret Bowman

Ms. A|vetta Smythe

Ms. Suzanne Levitas

D.C.-Haryland (15)

Goddard Space Fllght Center

Greenbelt, MD

NOAA

Rocky|lie, MD

Booz-Alien and Hamilton, Inc.

Bethesda, HD

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

David W. Tay|or Naval Ship

R ¢ D Center*

Bethesda, HD

OAO Corporation

Greenbelt, MD

301-344-6152

301-443-8330

301-951-2786

301-338-8345

202-227-1309

202-227-1433

301-267-2757

301-345-0750

*New User Since March 1981

-5-

Mr. Marc Mayer

fir. Peter Suthard

Ms. Denise Diggin

Ms, Wilda B. Newnan

Ms. Linda Kosmin

Ms. Mary Brown

Mr. Robert Kepple

Ms. Carolyn Brown

Ms. Connie Connolly

Ms. Elsie Cerutti

Ms. Hartha Dexter

Ms. Kartha Brown

Mr. Walter W. Smith

Ms. Herilee Worsey

National Air ¢ Space Museum

Washington, D.C.

DOE Energy Library

Washington, D.C.

Applled Physics Lab/Johns

Hopklns University

Laurel, MD

Executive Office of the President

Washington, D.C.

U.S.D.A. Forest Service*

Washington, D.C.

National Bureau of Standards

Washington, D.C.

Office of Technology Assessment

Congress of the U.S.

Washington, D.C.

White House Information Center

Washington, D.C.

COMSAT Labs.*

Clarksbur_L MD

202-347-1424

202-353-2855

301-953-7100

Ext. 491

202-395-3654

703-235-3111

301-921-3451

202-224-6994

202-456-7000

301-428-4512

Mr. Bill Cooper

Ms. Susan Weiss

Ms. Cheryl D. Higham

Ms. Mona G. Grlfflth

Ms. Laura Vollenweider

Ms. Maureen Corcoran

Flor ida (6)

NASA JFK Space Center

Kennedy Space Center, FL

E. Systems Inc.

St. Petersburg, FL

Embry-Riddle Aeronautlcal Univ.

Daytona Beach, FL

Martin Marietta Aerospace

Orlando, FL

Reynolds, Smith & Hills

Jacksonville, FL

University of Florida

Gainesvllle, FL

305-867-3613

813-381-2000

Ext. 2182

904-252-5561

Ext. 1385

305-352-2052

904-396-2011

Ext. 346

904-392-0853

*Bew User Since March 1981

-6-

Ms. Celeste B. Sproul

Mr. Charles K. Bauer

Mr. Mike Goerhing

Mr. Frank Bibbons

Mr. Robert F. Jack

Ms. Janice F. Bower

Ms. Hope Coffman

Ms. Betty Edwards

Ms. Caryl Graham Cttron

Ms. Lynn Fabrizio

Ms. Mary Pensyl

Ms. Kathieen Long

Ms. Joyce Rey

Mr. N. S. Brackett

Ms. Mary Pfann

Ms. Olive Whitehead

*New User Since March 1981

Georgia (2)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA

Lockheed-- Georgia Company

Marietta, GA

Indiana (1)

ARAC/Indiana University

IndlanapoTls, IN

Kentucky (1)

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

Massachusetts (6)

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Lexington, HA

CS Draper Laboratory

Cambridge, HA

Analytlc Sciences Corp.*

Reading, HA

HIT Libraries*

Cambridge, HA

Honeywell E1ectro-Optlcs Center

Lexington, HA

Smithsonlan Astrophysical Library*

Cambridge, HA

Michigan (1)

Lear Siegier Inc.

Grand Rapids, MI

New Jersey 13)

RC.A Astro-Eiectronics

Princeton, NJ

RCA Corp.

Camden, NJ

-7-

404-894-4528

404-424-2928

317-264-4644

606-248-4632

617-862-5500

Ext. 7198

617-258-3555

617-944-6850

617-253-7746

617-862-6222

617-495-7264

616-241-7467

6o9-448-3400

Ext. 2247

609-338-3488

Mr. Harry Kemp

Ms. Sarah Giddy

Ms. Irene Bogolubsky

Mr. David L. Staiger

Mr. Fred S. Dyer

Mr. Francis Schwartz

Mr. Lester M. Breslauer

Ms. Betty Miller

Ms. Betsy Mcllvaine

Ms. Dorothy Morris

Mr. John Dunning, Jr.

Ms. Anne Foreman

Ms. Eileen Stephenson

Mr. William L. Buckel

Ms. Judith Hecht

Ms. Cindy Mulkerin

Hr. Louis Musante

Mr. John Hennon

Mr. Larry Chasen

Ms. Denise Rich

Ms. Marie Knup

Ms. Rose Antipin

*New User Since March 1981

Federal Aviation Administration*

Atlantic, NJ

New York (7)

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

New York, NY

AIAA TIS

New York, NY

AIAA-Administration of Publications

New York, NY

Rome Air Development Center

Griffiss AFB, NY

Bell Aerospace TEXTRON

Buffalo, NY

CALSPAN Corp.*

Buffalo, NY

Phillps Labs. Res. Library*

Braircliff Manor, NY

Ohio (4)

NASA Lewis Research Center

Cleveland, OH

AFWAL/TST

Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Battelle-Columbus Laboratories

Columbus, OH

University of Dayton Research Inst.*

Dayton, OH

Pennsylvania (6)

University of Pittsburgh (NIAC)

Pittsburgh, PA

General Electric Co.

Space/Research Libraries

Philadelphia, PA

United Engineers & Constructors, Inc.

Philadelphia, PA

-8-

609-641-8200

Ext. 3132

212-678-5612

212-867-8300

Ext. 36

202-581-4300

315-300-2817

716-297-1000

Ext. 7011

716-632-7500

Ext. 5253

914-762-0300

Ext. 421

216-433-4000

Ext. 418

513-255-3630

614-424-6312

513-229-3024

412-624-5213

215-962-4700

215-422-3000

Hs. Valerie Tucci

Hs. Yvonne Stroh

Ms. Jean L. Hurd

Hr. C. G, Murphy

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.*

Allentown, PA

Honeywell Inc.*

Ft. Washington, PA

Pennsylvania State University*

State College, PA

215-481-7292

214-641-3982

814-8(;5-6621

Hs. Jane Hess

Hs. Sue Seward

Ms. Jane Foster

Hs. Carlynn Thompson

Ms. Jo Anne Reid

Virginia (4)

NASA Langley Research Center

Hampton, VA

NASA Wallops Flight Center

Wallops Island, VA

DTIC

Cameron Station, VA

Mitre Corporatlon

McLean, VA

804=827=2634

804-824-3411

703-274-7661

703-827-6483

*New User Since March 1981

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RECON User's Bulletin

National Aeror_utics and

"_ace Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

81/11

NOVEMBER 1981

CONTENTS

NASA Policy Governing RECON Access

The Stored Search Feature on NASA/RECON

NASA/RECON Training Plans

Corrections to Listing of RECON Users as of

October 27, 1981

PAGE

1

1

2

2

NASA Pollcy Governing RECON Access

Several |nqu]ries have been rece|ved concern]ng avai]a6|Tity Of

access to NASA/RECON and dissemination of information received

from the system. Access is limited to NASA Centers or installations, NASA contractors, universities with NASA contracts or

grants, and other-government agencies performing work on projects-of interest to NASA. Access is limited to the specific

site or location that qualifies for access, and use of the

system Is intended for support of projects that serve toqualify

that site for access. Transmission of citations retr.ieved on

RECON to any organization outside of the United States is expressly forbidden without specific approval of tbe Scientific

and Technical Information Branch, NASA Headquarters.

The Stored Search

Feature on NASA/RECON

The Stored Search feature is an exceptionally powerful capability

on NASA's online retrieval system, Skillfully employed, the

feature will render an SDI service second to none.

All users are reminded that storage exists for each one of them

to store up to 50 searches. The number of sets for each stored

search cannot exceed /;9.

Users who have had some advanced training are more likely to

exploit the stored search capability than those who have not had

such training. For indoctrination of those who have not experimented with the feature, we recommend that they take advantage of the NASAPUBS profile stored at the Facility on terminal

number ID43.

ENTER: q EXECUTE NASAPUBS(ID43)

• I III

RECON _ problem may be directed to the RECON

Coordinetor at the NASA Scienbfic and Technical Informltion

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-859-5300

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

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

directed to Buford Smith or John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-

755-3465. NASA Headqulrters. Code NST-42. Washington.

D.C. 20546).

Q

RECON User's Bulletin

,he Stored Search

Feature (Cont.)

and watch the continuous development through 12 sets. The final

set, Set 12, means that there is currently a grand total of

1682 SP's (Special Publications), RP's (Reference Publications),

and CP's (Conference Publications) in the system (on the primary

data base). As mentioned in NASA/RECON User's Bulletin 81/1 for

January, these documents represent the cream of NASA's documentation efforts.

Combine the final set (Set 12) with any subject of your choice.

Example: Find a high quality document (SP,RP, or CP)

on Lightning Protection of Aircraft

Answer: 78N11024 NASA RP-IO08

NASA/RECON

Training Plans

Basic Training

The NASA/RECON basic training session planned for December

2 and 3 has been rescheduled for January 19 and 20, 1982.

Advanced Training

A two-day NASA/RECON advanced training session ls planned to

be held in February or Hatch to serve the users located in the

West/Southwest (Texas, New Hexlco, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado).

Users located in this geographical area are requested to advise

Mr. Philip F. Eckertat the Facility, 301-859-5300, If they

could attend and what would be the most desirable location. A

host site is needed and anyone who will volunteer to be the

host will be gratefully appreciated.

Corrections to Listing of RECON Users as

of October 27, 1981

Please make the corrections as indicated in the attachment to

the llsting contained in RECON User's Bulletin 81/10.

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RECONUser'sBullel_

L rections to Listing

of RECONUsers as of

October 27, 1981 (Cont.)

ADD

Hr. Robert Potter

NORTH CAROLIN&

North Caro|ina Science and

Technology Research Center

Research Triangle Park, NC

919-549-0671

800-334-8561

CHANGE FROM

Hs. Irene Bogolubsky

Hs. Irene Bogolubsky

Ms. Patricia Harshall

NEW YORK

AIAA TIS

New York, NY

AIAA TIS

New Yorl_ NY

212-867-8300

Ext-36

212-247-6500

CHANGE FROH

Hr. David L. Staiger

TO

--Hr. David L. Staiger

AIAA Administration of Publications

New York, NY

AIAA Administration of Publications

New York, NY

202-581-4300

212-581-4300

CHANGE FROH

Dr. Robert Hlxer

Hr. Herb Asbury

Hs. Patti Brown

Hs. Becky Jenson

Dr. Robert Hlxer

Hr. Herb Asbury

Hs. Sandra Tung

Hr. Richard Wallace

CALIFORNIA

WESRAC - Univ. of So. Cal.

Los Angeles, CA

NIAC - Univ. of So. Cal

Los Angeles, CA

213-741-7203

213-741-6132

213-743-7203

213-743-_o132

DELETE

Ms. Jean L. Hurd

PENNSYLVANNIA

Honeywell Inc.

Ft. Washington, PA

214-641-3982

-3-

OR!GII'_AL F.,_'_E IS

OF POOR QUf-..L_'IY

t

RECON User's Bulbt_

:orrectlons to Listing

)f RECON User's _Cont.)

:HANGE FROM

Mr. Harry Kemp

Mr. Harry Kemp

Or. Nancy Boylan

NEW JERSEY

Federal Aviation Administration

Atlantic City, NJ

Federal Aviation Administration

Atlantic Clty, NJ

609-641-8200

Ext-2125

609-641-8200

Ext-2125

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IU/ SA

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

Rcientific and Technical

formation Branch

RECON Users I ullet n,

81/12

DECEMBER 1981

CONTENTS PAGE

NASA Thesaurus - Online 1

Discontinuance of Computer PrOgram Abstracts (CPA) 5

Research and Technology Objectives and Plans - FY 1982 5

NASA Thesaurus

Online

Hany users have Inquired when the new edition of the NASA

Thesaurus wl]l be published. Some may not realize that the

NASA Thesaurus ls available online on RECON and is updated

dally. Except for the generic structure and the Access Vocabulary the online thesaurus offers all the Information that is

in the printed Thesaurus plus dally updates.

Access to the online Thesaurus is simple and can be done by

either of the following basic commands.

THESAURUS STRUCTURE EXPAND

X TS/Vaild thesaurus term

PRIHARY & SECONDARY EXPAND

X Desired term (resulting in an alphabetical

display and capability of secondary and

further expansion)

(X ST/ Hay also. be used Just like primary

expand except In File Collections F,I, & H)

THESAURUS STRUCTURE EXPAND

The Thesaurus structure expand command gives direct access

to the Thesaurus structure and postings of any valid term. Thesaurus structure expand may not be used In the F File Collection,

however, primary expand wll1 default Into the LT expansion. To

get the Thesaurus structure and postlngs for books in the F File

Collection, X ST/ term must be used. Only the ln|tlal term In

the expansion is selectable. Postings listed for the first Item

are for books and subsequent postlngs are for books and documents

RECON opemtiorml problem may be directed to the RECON

Coordinatorat the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore, Mawland. (Telephone: (301)-859-5300

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 iTelephone: (202)-

755-3465, NASA Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington.

D. C. 20546).

ECON User's Bulletin

_A Thesaurus

Online (Cont.)

and cannot be selected from the expansion. To select a Thesaurus

term and Its postlngs from the expansion you must use the command

X ST/valld term.

You may use X TS/ In A,B,C,D,E,G,N,I,M, and N File Collections.

D and N File Collections

ENTER:

X TS/THESQURI

EXPAI,ID TS/TiIESQURI

IEF DESCRIPTOR TP

R01 -ST/THESQURI- N

R02

R03

occ rs

40 5

RTIINDEXES (DOCUMENT

ATION) N

RTIINFORMATION RETRI

EVAL N 42G9 19

R04 RT/IERMINOLOGY N 310 4

RO5 RTITERMS N 33 2

I_OG RT/WORDS (LBNGUBGE)-N 47S 24

ENTER:

243G 21

Please note X TS/vaild term In the N Fl|a Collection does not

give postlngs for books; It gives the same expansion that s'_'-ln

the D File Collectlon. Comblned postlngs for books and documents

may be found wlth a primary and secondary expansion (X term, then

X ref. no. or X term, then X ref. no.)

G File Collection

ENTER:

X TSITHESQURI

EXPQND TS/THESQURI

REF DESCRIPTOR TP OCC TS

It01 -ST/THESQURI 0 0

I_02 RT/INDEXES (DOCUMENT

QTION) -N G 21

R03 RTIINFORMATIOI'I RETRI

EVAL B 313 19

It04 RTITERMINOLOGY B 92 4

ROS RT/TERMS- 0 0

ROG RTIWORDS (LQNGUQGE)-N 24 24

ENTER:

NOTE: Even though a term ls not used In the G File Collection,

It Is listed in the structure.

-2-

SOONU=-, N/IRA i

SA Thesaurus

unllne (Cont.)

°

Reference numbers (EO1,R01) may be used to further expand the

term desired. The descriptor In thls case Is equivalent to the

thesaurus term. (TP) stands for thesaurus type, (N - New, 0 - Old,

B - Both, U - Use). A "Ne_' thesaurus type may be found In either

the D file or the G file, and may be expanded for structure In

either the D or the G file. An "Old" thesaurus term Is Found

only In the G File Collection and may not be expanded for structure.

Many terms listed in the G Flle Collectlon are In the singular

rather than plural and structures can be found by looking for the

terms in the plural. "Both 'm type terms may be expanded For

structure.

PRIMARY & SECONDARY EXPAND

Experience has shown that unless the user Is positive that

the term Is valid, It is best to use the primary and secondary

expand. The additional step required in this approach often

reveals related terms in the alphabetical expansion and Insures

the selection of the proper term.

D.Flle Collection

ENTER:

X TERHS

EXPAND ST/TERMS

REF DESCRIPTOR TP OCC

E01 ST/TERMINAL VELOCITYN 178

E02 ST/TERMINALS N 94

E03 ST/TERMINATING ...... U 0

E04 ST/TERMINATOR LINES-N 96

EO5 ST/TERMINOLOGY...... N 308

E06 -ST/TERMS ,N 33

E07 ST/TERNRRY RLLOYS---N 1373

EO8 ST/TERNARY SYSTEHS--N 674

MORE

ENTER:

X E6

EXPAND ST/TERMS

IEF DESCRIPTOR TP OCC TS

ROI -ST/TERMS N 33 2

R02 RT/INFORMRTION THEOR

Y................. N 3769 43

R03 RT/THESRURI ......... N 40 S

ENTER:

TS EO9 ST/TERNARY SYSTEMS (

3 DIGI"rRLk-_,_ .... -U 0 I

7 EIO ST/TERPENES N 37 6

! Ell ST/TERPHENYLS....... N 31 1

S E12 ST/TERRACES (LANDFOR

4 MS) N 8 TO

2 El3 ST/TERRADYNAMICS.... N 143 4

2 E14 ST/TERRAIN N 753 5

4 E1S ST/TERRAIN RNRLYSIS-N 2456 13

NOTE: Terminology might also be looked at even though It Is not

In the Thesaurus structure for tems.

An almost endless chain of term structures can be revealed by

expanding the appropriate reference number of the previous

structure. Thus R02 Information theory could be expanded and

its references expanded. This technique simulates paging through

the printed NASA Thesaurus.

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:ON User's Bulletin _ ... |_

_A Thesaurus

,line (Cont.)

OTHER FEATURES

A llttle used feature of the online thesaurus Is the

ab|lity to specify term codes. This way the user can get only

the part of the structure that Is of interest. If you are only

Interested in related terms simply,

X TS/Term*RT

The following codes may be used,

Narrower term NT

Broader term BT

Related term RT

Used-For UF

Use US

The user might also be Interested In the number of postlngs

for the major or minor terms. This may be done as follows;

x _J/TE_

X HN/TEI_

If the structure of the term Is desired It may be obtained by

expanding the E number but It will give postlngs for both Hajor

and Hlnor terms not Just a structure wlth Major terms only or

Hinor terms only.

As mentioned before, Thesaurus structure may be accessed In

other files. In flle collectlons A,B,C,E,H, the structures are

the same but the postings contain fewer ltems since these files

are part of larger files.

In the ASRDi File Collection (!) the alphabetical display can

only be expanded further when there are one or more numbers In

the TS column. Host terms without a TS number that are _he 0

type are not valid In other files. Only the primary expand

command w111 work and the result is actually to default to the

AST/preflx rather than the ST or RT prefix. It Is a hybrid

Thesaurus dlsplay since It contains terms not valid in other

files.

In the NALNET Periodicals File Collection (H), X/TERM and

X Ts/'rERH commands wlll default to the PTX or all text fields.

If you want the Periodical Subject Category you must use

X PSC/(Subject Category Term). These subject categories are

not NASA Thesaurus terms and therefore cannot be expanded

for a structure.

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ECON User's Bulletin

SA Thesaurus

3n|ine (Cont.)

When the new printed NASA Thesaurus Is published In the spring

In 1982, it w111 contain structures for over 20,000 terms and

over 150,000 cross references in BT, NT, and RT categories.

Discontinuance of

:omputer Program

_bstracts (CPA)

The quarterly abstract journal Computer Program Abstracts

announcing software and documentation from COSMIC has been

discontinued. However, items selected by COSMIC will continue

to be entered into the RECON data base, and can be searched in

the H10K series In File Collection D. An annual catalog is

avallable from COSMIC in microfiche (at 48:1). It Is planned

to Include the catalog on RECON at a later date.

Users looking for computer programs are advised to search the

H series wlth follow-up searches or requests directly to COSMIC

at the following address:

COSMIC

Computer Software Hanagement

& Information Center

112 Barrow Hall

University of Georgia

Athens, GA 30602

Telephone (404) 542-3265

Research and Technology ObJectives

and Plans - FY 1982

RTOP for FY 1982 is undergoing preparation at NASA Headquarters

and the Facility while this bulletin Is being drafted. The

NASA data base will be loaded as the RTOP publlcatlon nears

completion. Estimated schedule for It looks like this:

o Camera-ready copy to GPO and concomltant

loading of STIMS/RECON data base - April 1982

O Delivery of production copies to NTIS for

sale to the public with advertising contained In several Issues of the Commerce

Business Dally - April 1982

o Announcement In STAR - Aprll or Hay 1982

The annual RTOP Is extremely useful for locating brief descriptions

of and trends In NASA research. The NASA Scientific and Technical

Information Branch at NASA Headquarters has recognized the pub =

Zlcatlon's Importance by Including a one-page special notice in

the front matter of the STAR Issue that contains the abstract

and citation for the RTOP.

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RECON Usar's Bulletin

":search and Tech-

..ulogy ObJectives

and Plans - FY 1982

(Cont.)

Those users who are unfamiliar with RTOP's are advised to

peruse N81-19959 on page 1422 of STAR 10; or slmply display

N81-19959, (NOTE: RTOP is the acronym for Research and Technology ObJectives and Plans.)

Hol lday Greetings The Scientific and Technlcal Information Branch at NASA Headquarters Joins the NASA Scientific and Technlca] Facility In

extending holiday greetings to the NASA User Community,

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1982

NASA

National Aero_utics and

"pace Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

82/1

JANUARY 1982

CONTENTS

NASA/RECON Advanced Training Plans for

the Rountain Time Zone Area

NTIS Price Changes

Index for 1981RECON User's Bulietln

PAGE

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NASA/RECON Advanced

Training P|ans

Advanced training workshops will be held in the Rountaln

Time Zone area as follows:

March 22-23_ 1982 (Ron. S Tues.)

University of Denver

Penrose Library

University Park

Denver, CO 80208

Denver Univ. Contact is

Hs. Patrlcia Fischer or

Rs. Sai|eye Smith

303-753-2422

The Denver sessions are Intended principally for the 7 Colorado

users, 2 Oklahoma users, and one Hlssourl user. Others may

attend on a space available basis.

Rarch 24-25 r 1982 (Wed. S Thurs.)

University of Arizona

Rain Library

Tucson, AZ 85721

Arlzona Univ. Contact ls

Hr. Douglas Jones

602-626-5193

The Tucson sessions are Intended principally for the 2 Arizona

users, 3 Utah users, 3 New Hexlco, and one or two users from

Caiifornia'and Washington. Others may attend on a space available basis.

0rganlzatlons planning to send one or more representatives to

these workshops are requested to inform Hr. Philip F. Eckert

at the Facility of their plans (301-859-5300, ext. 363 or 374).

RECON operational problem may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore, Maryland, (Telephone: (301)-859-5300

ext. 286) or Washington. O. 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 Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington.

D C. 20546).

.'ON Usm's Bulletin

NTIS Price Changes

i

The minimum prices at NTIS are now $6.00 per hard copy of 25

pages or less and $_.00 per microfiche. Consult the Front

matter of 1982 copies of STAR or NTIS publications for detailed price schedules.

index for 1981RECON

User's Bulletin

The Index for NASA/RECON User's Bulletin 81/1 through 81/12

is forwarded as a separate entity with this bulletin.

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January - December 1981

81/1 through 81/12

A

m

Access Policy - NASA RECON

Alternate Data Base

Augmentation Processor - Installed at the Faclllty

Issue

m

81/2

81/11

81/9

81/1

C

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Computer Program Abstracts - Discontinuance 81/12

D

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Dictionary - Use of NASA/RECON as 81/8

E

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Evaluation Sheets

Expand Command

81/3

81/6

F

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Frequency Command - Novel use of 81/7

81/10

I

Indexes - Cancellation of Semiannual Indexes

for IAA and STAR

81110

L

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Listing of Users 81/3

81/10

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New Features - for RECON 81/7

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Order Command

,Issue

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81/1

P

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Pollcy, Access

Primary Data Base

81/2

81/11

81/9

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RECON challenges

RTOP

81/8

81/12

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5

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Stored Search - for your use

Stored Search - Displaying

Stored Search

81/1

81/4

81/11

T •

!

Thesaurus

Title Sort

Training Plans - Advanced

- Basic

- Advanced

- Advanced

- Basic

- Basic and Advanced

Type Command - Discontinuance

U

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Users Group - Central/Eastern Kentucky

Users.- Listing of

81/12

81/5

81/2

81/4

81/5

81/8

81/lO

81/11

81/4

81/6

81/3

81/10

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National Aeronautics ancl

_ce Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

82/2

FEBRUARY 1982

CONTENTS PAGE

The Display Order of RECON Accessions

The DlspIay Order

of RECON Accessions

In 1970, when the NASA data base was relatlvely small and

some four years before the data base was split Into the Prime

(Primary) and Alternate Data Bases (1974), the sort order by

Accession Series for displaying and printing was developed by

the RECON system designers. The original sequencing of

accessions, In descending accession number order by serles,

carried over Into the Primary and Alternate Data Bases as

shown below.

Primary Data Base (1968 to date r except for BIOK)

KIOK K10000

B1OK B10000

H1OK HlO000

X7OK X70000

XIOK XIO000

WOK W70000

AIOK AIO000

N70K N70000

NIOK N10000

R_D Contract Search File

Tech Briefs (A!I, 1963 to date)

Computer Program Abstracts

Llmlted or Ciasslfled Accessions

of Llmlted Signlflcance

Limited or Classified Accesslom In LSTAR

RTOP's

International Aerospace Abstracts

Unclassified/Unlimited Accessions of

Llmlted Significance

STAR

NOTE: IAA and STAR accessions are displayed or printed

third from last and last, respectively.

DISPLRV 99/1/1-9

78BtOO5e BBMlBO01 77X-/0588 80X10012 IY)g7040e ?gR12BO6 81N71600

Accession Series Order of Display

-Primary Data BaseRECON operational problems may be directedto the RECON

Coordinatorat the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-859-5300

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 Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington.

D C 20546)

\

The Display Order

of RECON Accessions

(Cont.)

Alternate Data Base (1962-19.67 r except for XgOK and N40K)

XgOK xg0000

NgOK Ngo000

X80K X80000

XIOK X10000

WIOK WIO000

A10K AIO000

N70K N70000

N60K N60000

N80K N80000

N10K NIO000

Limited or Classified Accessions for

Record only (All, 1963 to date)

Unclassified or Unllm4ted Accessions

for Record only (All, 1963 to date)

Limited or Classlfled Accessions of

Limited Significance

Limited or Ciasslfled Accessions In CSTAR

Research Resumes - predecessor of RTOP's

International Aerospace Abstracts

Unclassified GAP - NASA SP-9

Unclasslfled GAP - NASA SP-9

Unclassified and Unlimited Accessions

of Limited Signlflcance

STAR

DISPLh¥ 99,'1/1-9

81NgoG02 66X_)r'330 65Xl06'01 70blIOOG5 64Rl0_)7 62N63902 67NSOG01

Accession Series Order of Display

-Alternate Data BaseIn both data bases, IAA and STAR accessions are dlsplayed and

printed near the end of the display or printed output.

The user can easily overcome the "lateness" of displaying iAA

and STAR accessions by use of the limit command.

Assume that Set 10 contains several series - the user can

limit Set 10 in several ways In order to have the IAA and

STAR Accesslons displayed or printed before the other accessions.

First

L IO//A,N

or

Second

L IO//A followed by

L 10//N/10001-35000

Reiterating, there are several methods the user can employ to

have the STAR and IAA material display early. One method that

should not be overlooked Is to select File Collection A, which

contains only IAA and STAR.

The K,B,X,W, and other non-A and non-N accesslons can be

searched or selected by use of the limit command or the NOT

Command.

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Nat_x'_al Aeronaotk3s and

$,',ace Admnstration

b_mntffic and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

82/3

MARCH 1982

CONTENTS

New RECON Equipment

The Art of Procuring Documents for NASA Users

NASA/RECON Basic Training

PAGE

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New RECON

Equipment

As of the last week of February, RECON has been operating in a

production environment on two relatively new pieces of equipment

at the Facility, namely, the IBH-4341 computer, utilizing the HVS

(Hultiple Virtual Storage) operating system, and the COHTEH 3690

Front End Processor. Prior to this date, RECON had run on the

IBH-360/65, under the HVT (Hultiprogramming Variable Tasks)

operating system and communications were handled by the TELEFILE

Front End Processor. The conversion effort was initiated in the

spring of 1981 to upgrade RECON to the current state-of-the-art,

employ more reliable hardware, free its dependency from an

operating system (HVT) no longer supported by the vendor, and enable RECON to take advantage of faster 1/0 devices and faster

channel speed. The conversion effort was a major software development task, largely concentrated on the communications interface

the termlnal user has with RECON.

With the new hardware and software operatlonal, we fully anticipate more reliability and increased availability of RECON service

to the user community. We also expect a few problems to crop up

in the next few months until the program anomalies have surfaced

and been resolved. We therefore ask your indulgence and cooperatlon in assisting us by notifying the RECON Coordinator if you

notice any problems.

The Art of Procuring

Documents for NASA

Users

The tltle of this article could be expanded to include all users

throughout the world. In the quest for information we usually

locate initially the references to the articles, documents or

books that we need for our professions or for enjoyment. NASA/

RECON, STAR, IAA, SCAN and other information dispensers provide

us with surrogates - substitutes for the articles, documents we

desire to skim, read, or extract from.

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore, Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-859-5300

ext. 288) 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 Headquarters, Code NST-42. Washington,

D C. 20546).

RECON User's Bulletin

l . Art of Procuring

Documents (Cont.)

NASA services, particularly RECON, provide good leads to the hardcore material we need. The procuring of documents or books is an

art in itself, and the art can be most readily executed by the

resident experts. An engineer in Lab X who has never heard of

NTIS, ESA, IAA, a PB or an AD number would be wasting his time

in trying to obtain a document or documents on his own. He or

she should make known his or her needs at the central service

point (usually a library or tech information center) and let the

experts obtain the required materials.

Admittedly, there will always be problems. How many times have

we heard this type of request? We need a document on lasers,

written by an author by the name of Smith, around 1966-1969 ....

(The British classify this type as an "awkward request"). But

given an accession number, part of a title, or a good author,

the expert is off to a fast start.

The NASA series designations were developed to assist the information dispensers or brokers and the bench users. Let us

review some of the highlights:

o N means publicly available, e.g., N82-10001.

o X means a distribution limitation or a security-classified limitation, e.g., X81-10002.

o A means an "open" literature item, (journal

or periodical), announced in International

Aerospace Abstracts (IAA), e.g., A80-12345.

The general ground rule is that almost all N items are available

for purchase through NTIS (National Technical Information Service

in Springfield, Virginia); and almost all A items are available

for purchase through the Technical Information Service of AIAA

in New York. NTIS and AIAA are staffed to process large volumes

of requests and to handle cash whereas some agencies cannot.

The expert document procurer knows immediately that the prefix

AD connotes a DoD document; that PB (an abbreviation for 'Publication

Board', dating back some 30 years) means that the document was

processed at NTIS for agencies other than DoD or NASA.

Nothing is more frustrating to the procurer and user than _o wind

up with the wrong document. To reduce the number of mis-orders,

NTIS instituted the "check digit" concept in 1975. For example,

PB-201149 is listed by NTIS as PB-201149/1. The 1 after the

slash is the check digit and is derived by an algorithm based

on the six preceding digits.

If in the ordering process the last two digits, 49, had been

transposed to 94, the check digit most likely would not have been

a 1. If the transposition had occurred NTIS would have returned

the order to the requesting agency for verification. In other

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:IECON User's Bull¢_

h ,rt of Procuring

ocuments (Cont.)

words, the use of check digits has reduced significantly the

mis-ordering of documents, and in some cases, books.

For data validation purposes, the International Standard Book

Number (ISBN) is a number that identifies one title or edition

of that title if there is more than one. The construction of the

ISBN is explained in British Standard BS 4762:1971. The check

digit Issued for verification to ensure against errors In transcription. Its calculation is interesting and simple:

A. Each digit In the group Is multiplied by a

'Weight." The first is multiplied by 10,

the second by 9, the third by 8, etc.

For example: (Carl Saganls COSMOS - the ISBN

is 0-394-50294-9)

O - 3 9 4 - 5 0 2 9 4 - 9 .... ISBN

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 .... weights

B. 0 +27+72+28 +30+ 0 +8+Z7 +8 - 200 (sum)

C. Result ls divided by 11

200 _ 11 _18 with a remainder of 2

D. The remainder is subtracted from 11

11 - 2 m 9 (the check digit)

If the result of subtracting the remainder from

11 is 10, the check digit is written as X In order

to maintain the ISBN at a standard length of ten digits.

E. The check digit becomes the suffix to the other

nine digits, e.g., ISBN 0-394-50294-9

Summarizing, plead with and encourage your users to submit their

document requirements to their central service point. The experts

there know how to procure the wanted documents. Some of the requested materlal may be in hardcopy or microfiche Iocally,'thus

obviating the need for telephone or written requests or purchase

orders. Let your clientele know that procurement of documents and

books, many of them out of print or resting in archives, is an art

unto itself, with the best experts at the center service point.

ASA/RECON Basic

raining

The next NASA/RECON Basic .Training Workshop will be held at the

Facility on Hay 18 and 19 provided a quorum of between 7 and 10

users can be assembled. A11 users who are interested are requested

to inform Hr. Philip F. Eckert at the Facility of their plans for

the Hay training sessions (301-859-5300, Ext. 363 or 374).

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NatK:)nal Aeror_utJcs and

Space Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

82/4

APRIL 1982- CONTENTS PAGE

NASA/RECON User's Command Guide for NALNET

NASA/RECON Advanced Training in Denver and

Tucson in Hatch

NACA Annual Reports

NASA/RECON User's

Command Guide for

NALNET

Five copies of a command guide for NALNET (NASA Library Network)

are forwarded with this bulletin. Copies of a phototyypeset, improved version will be distributed to the field within the next

45 days...probably with the June RECON User's Bulletin.

NASA/RECON Advanced

Training

Two two-day RECON advanced training sessions were held in the

Hountain Time Zone areas as follows:

Denver_ Colorado

o Harch 22-23, at the University of Denver for 21

employees representing the University of Denver,

University of Colorado (Boulder), Colorado State

University (Ft. Collins), National Center-for

Atmospheric Research (Boulder), USAF Academy

(Colorado Springs), NOAA (Boulder), Hartin Harietta

Aerospace (Denver), NSRL (Bay St. Louis, HS),

Hercules Inc., (Hagna, UT), Thiokol (Brigham

City, UT), and the Pacific Northwest Laboratories

(Richland, WA).

Tucson_ Arizona

Harch 24-25, at the University of Arizona for 14

employees representing the University of A_izona,

Arizona State University, Kirtland Air Force Base,

(NH), White Sands Test Facility (NH), California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA), USAF School of

Aerospace Hedicine (Brooks Air Force Base, TX), Vandenberg Air Force Base (CA), and General Dynamics

(San Diego, CA).

RECON opefal_onal problem may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-859-5300

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 Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington.

O C 20546)

NASA/RECONAdvanced

Training (CONT.)

The training was received with enthusiasm in both cities.

Many of the trainees praised the versatility of NASA/RECON

and considered the Frequency Command and Stored Search

capability an outstanding addition.

NASA Headquarters and the Facility again wish to express their

appreciation to Ms. Salleye Smith of the University of Denver

and Mr. Douglas Jones of the University of Arizona for their

able and efficient hosting of the RECON briefing and training

sessions.

NACA Annual Reports The Facility's collection of NACA Annual Reports (Technical

Report Versions) is 59 percent complete. Offers from RECON

Users who have spare copies of the following annual reports

will be gratefu11y accepted.

NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS

(With Technical Reports)

1918 Fourth Annual Report

1919 Fifth Annual Report

1920 Sixth Annual Report

1921 Seventh Annual Report

1922 Eighth Annual Report

1923 Ninth Annual Report

1925 Eleventh Annual Report

1926 Twelfth Annual Report

1927 Thirteenth Annual Report

1928 Fourteenth Annual Report

1931 Eighteenth Annual Report

1932 Nineteenth Annual Report

1933 Twentieth Annual Report

1934 Twenty-first Annual Report

1935 Twenty-second Annual Report

1936 Twenty-third Annual Report

1950 Thirty-sixth Annual Report

1954 Fortieth Annual Report

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Scaentific and Technical

Information Branch

CON User's Bulletin

32/5

AAY 1982 CONTENTS PAGE

New HELP Data - Searchable Mnemonics

NASA/RECON Basic Training at the Facility in Hay

New HELP Data Listings of searchable fields with mnemonics for each NASA File

Collection are now available for display. Enter HELP and transmit.

A list of RECON commands will appear for which an explanation is

available. Among these are the " SEARCH COLL- " commands for

each NASA File Collection. An example follows:

ENTER:HELP SEARCH COLL-A

EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR XBeS

SEARCHABLE FIELD MNEMONICS FOR FILE COLLECTION t OR h (IAA AND STAR FILES)

TEXT SEARCHABLE FIELDS IAA STAR NONTEXT SEARCHABLE FIELDS IAA STAR

TEXT FIELDS. (S) TX TX OCAF NUMBER DC DC

ABSTRACT (fiN) AX AX REPORT NUMBER RN RN

ANALYTICAL ITEM £SM) AI AI PERSONAL AUTHOR AU AU

ANALYTICAL NOTE (SM) AL AL CONTRACT NUMBER CN CN

DATA SUMMARY [SM] Dfi DS CORPORATE SOURCE CO CO

USE STATEMENT CSM) SU SU SUBOECT TERMS*-* ST ST

ALL TITLE FIELDSN* (S] ATL ATL MA30R TERMS MD M3

UNCLASSIFIED TITLE (SM3 UTP UTP MINOR TERMS fin MN

TITLE SUPPLEMENT [SM] TSP TSP DATA TERMS DT DT

TITLE EXTENSION CSM) TEP TEP

NOTATION OF CONTENT CSM) N0C NOC

CS]=

CSM]:

*TX

**ATL

Nm*ST

ENTER:

A SINGLE WORD PARAMETER MUST BE USED WITH THE MNEMONIC.

A SINGLE OR MULTIPLE WORD PARAMETER CAN BE USED WITH THE MNEMONIC.

MULTIPLE WORDS CAN BE EITHER PHRASE OR PROXIMITY TYPE ENTRIES.

INCLUDES ALL FIELDS UNDER TEXT FIELDS.

INCLUDES ALL FIELDS UNDER ALL TITLE FIELDS.

INCLUDES ALL FIELDS UNDER SUB3ECT TERMS.

"CON operationol problems may be directed to the RECON

_ordinator at the NASA Scientific and Techmcal Information

cility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-859-5300

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

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

d0rected to Suford Smith or John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-

755-3465, NASA Headquarters, Code NST-42, Washington.

D C 20546)

RECON User's Bulletin

;A/RECON Basic

Training

A two-day RECON basic training workshop was held at the Facility

on May 18 and 19 for 21 employees representing the following

organizations:

Goddard Institute of Space Studies

NASA Headquarters

Naval Surface Weapons Center

Nava] Surface Weapons Center

USAF Space Division

USAF Western Space & Missle Center

USAF Institute of Technology

Pennsylvania State University

AVCO Lycoming Division

NASA Facility

New York, NY

Washington, D.C.

Dahlgren, VA

White Oak, MD

Los Angeles, CA

Vandenberg AFB, CA

Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

College Station, PA

Stratford, CT

BWI Airport, MD

Future training sessions will be announced in the REC0N User's

BuI|etins. At the moment there are no plans for the conducting

of training in June or July.

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National Aeronautics and

_ ce Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

82/6

JUNE 1982 CONTENTS

The QUERY Command - Unauthorized Use

New UTS-400 Features

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"he QUERY Command

=.w UTS-400 Features

The QUERY Command technology was developed as a stored search

sequence capability that allows the user to create and save

permanently the command sequences, and, subsequently, to

initiate execution of the stored sequence. Each dedicated

and dial-in terminal has the capacity for storing up to S0

unique searched or profiles.

The QUERY technology was not developed as a communications

(Message Sending/Electronic Mail) medium between NASA Centers

or other organizations. To do so is a misuse of resources

allocated to the RECON network and can degrade responsiveness

of the system. Effective upon receipt of this bulletin, all

users are requested to limit use of RECON, specifically, the

stored search or QUERY technology, to that purpose for which

it is designed.

Four new features have been added to the RECON for use on the UTS400. These are RECALL, REPEAT, TAB and QUERY (subcommand expansions).

RECALL. Depressing the space bar when the cursor is at the beginning

of the command line causes the previously transmitted command to be

displayed on the command line. It can then be transmitted again,

changed and transmitted, noted, or ignored. The command line does

not have to be erased to perform this function. In addition to

corrections and changes, this enhancement is also useful when the

previously transmitted command differs slightly from the next .

command to be transmitted. Recalling the previous command and

changing the appropriate part is often faster than typing the

whole command again.

CON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

)rdinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

iliry in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-859-53OO

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

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

directed to 8uford Smith or John Wilson (Telephone: (202)-

755-3465. NASA Headquarters. Code NST-42. Washington.

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REPEAT. The REPEAT command function recalls the last command

transmitted, as described above, and automatically retransmits

it. The XFER key, second key from the right end of the second

row, is used for this function. This has been found to be

particularly useful for retransmitting the "DISPLAY" or "DISPLAY-"

commands since only one key need be depressed for each display

request.

TA._B. The TAB BACK and TAB FWD keys to the left and right of the

space bar can be used to move the cursor left and right, respectively, twelve spaces at a time during the typing of RECON

commands. Previously, these commands and the CURSOR TO HOHE

and RETURN keys returned the cursor to the beginning of the

command line. This enhancement speeds up the positioning of

the cursor when making corrections to changes to a command.

The use of the tab keys whi]e filling out the begin ar end search

forms are not affected by this enhancement.

QUERY. The abbreviations for the QUERY subcommands have been

_ned with the abbreviations for QUERY (i.e. _ for forming

several new abbreviations that are automatically expanded by

the UTS-400 in the same manner as all other RECON commands. The

letter Q is no longer expanded to the word QUERY. The rule for

forming the new abbreviations is to type the letter "_' followed

immediately by the first two letters of the subcommand. For

example, the abbreviations for QUERY EDIT would be QED. For

convenience and when possible, some QUERY commands can be expanded

by typing only two letters -- a "Q" followed by the first letter of

the subcommand. These are Oj_ for QUERY ALTER, AL for QUERY LIST,

02t for QUERY HEHBER, QQ for QUERY QUIT, QR for QUERY REPLACE, and

QS for QUERY SAVE. The space bar must be depressed prior to transmitting in order to expand the abbreviations. Whether a two- or

three-letter abbreviation is required, you can always try typing

two letters and if it is not valid the UT$-400 will detect it.

Just backspace and type the appropriate third letter followed by

a space. You may prefer using the three-letter version all the

time since this will always generate an expanded version.

The above enhancements will be available for downline loading on

July l, ]982. All one needs to do is type LOAD and hit the

XHIT key on the primary or master terminal station. A "LOAD

INIT!ATED...PLEASE WAIT FOR COHPLETION" message sh_Jld appear

at Cne bottom or the screen. Shortly thereafter, a "RECON HODE

ACTIVE" message should appear at the bottom of the screen and

a "*_***LOAD COHPLETED...CONTINUE PROCESSING**_**" message

should appear at the top of the screen. If, instead of these two

messages an "ERROR IN REQUESTED LOAD" message appears at the top

of the screen, you might not be at a primary or master terminal.

Try another terminal. If all the terminals in your UTS-400

cluster produce negative results, contact the RECON coordinator

for assistance.

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_tECON (Jser's Bulletin

TS-400 Features

Progress

The next UTS-400 enhancement release will provide the operator

with the ability to:

(I) type two or more commands before transmitting,

(2) create and store command sequences (i.e., one or more

commands) in local memory,

(3) transmit locally stores command sequences,

(4) create and edit stored searches (i.e., queries) using

the word processing features of the UTS-400,

(5) select a SPECIFY FORMAT 4 mode

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 ASA

dat_onal Aeronautics and

;pace Administration

Jntific and Technical

nformation Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

32/7

ULY 1982

tonthly UPDATE for

IASA R&D Contracts

5

ew High Density

schnology Storage

'_M-3380 DASD)

CONTENTS PAGE

Monthly UPDATE for NASA R&D Contracts

High Density Technology Storage (IBM-3380 DASD) 2

NASA STI Facility Host to NHCC 2

NASA Headquarters Office of Management Reorganization 2

An experimental project is being developed and tested to provide

monthly UPDATES for new NASA R&D contracts. Thus, Principal

Investigators (PI) would be supplied with the latest references

in the area of the contract. The UPDATES may be sent directly

to the PI or through the library. For the immediate future, the

tests conducted by the Facility will be limited to selected 1982

K-fileaccessionscovering new contracts issued by NASA Headquarters, Langley, and Ames.

If other Centers wish to participate, follow this procedure.

Obtain your Center listing of 1982 K accessions from the

Facility. Prepare profiles for selected contracts using the

QUERY command and store them on RECON. Upon completion, inform

the Information Services Department in writing at the Facility

(or call Ext. 232) that your Center wants the profiles or queries

(by name) processed on a monthly basis. Profiling assistance is

available at any time from the Facility from Hal Wynne, Edna

Fleek, June Silvester, BIll Owens or Phil Eckert.

Similarly, contractors with RECON access may develop their own

profiles using the QUERY command procedures. The profiling

assistance mentioned in the foregoing paragraph is also available

to all contractor users. The auxiliary monthly profile entitled

STOREMAY, STOREJUN, STOREJUL, etc., which limits each profile to

the monthly accessions, is normally ready for use by the fifth of

each month. Its application to field user profiles will be

readily explained to all interested contractor users upon request.

All contractors will be responsible for processing their monthly

UPDATES.

The NASA STI Facility recently completed an upgrade to its Direct

Access Storage Devices (DASD) that contain the RECON/STIM data

base files. This storage represents the very latest in thin-film,

:ON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

rdinator at the NASA Scmntlfic and Technical Information

lity in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-859-5300

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

ext 2.86) Other problems, suggest=ons and comments may be

d=rectad to .Buf°rd Sm_tt_ or John Wdson (Telephone: (202)-

755-3465. NASA Headquarters. Code NIT-42. Washington.

D C 20546'_

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ASA STI Facility

ost to NHCC

_SA Headquarters

_organization

high-density storage technology. In February of 1982, the

Facility initiated an acquisition plan for procurement of two

IBM-3380 DASD units and one IBM-3380 Storage Control Unit. The

new equipment was installed on June 14, and contains approximately 5 billion bytes of storage. The 3380's replaced eight

IBM-2314's and six 3330's and resulted in a net increase of

2.2 billion bytes over the previous configuration. The total

storage at the Facility is now 9.0 billion bytes.

The new storage configuration has resulted in an overall increase

of random access storage, increased performance characteristics,

a 44 percent reduction in electrical power for operation, a 59

percent reduction in power consumption for air conditioning and

a net reduction of floor space requirements by lO0 square feet.

The STI Facility is one of the first NASA sites to acquire the

IBM-3380's and in fact their acquisition required a waiver from

the Department of Commerce as the 3380's have not yet. been adopted

in the National Bureau of Standards ADP standards.

The NASA STI Facility is currently playing host to the NASA Headquarters Computer Center (NHCC).

Rehabilitation of air conditioning at the NHCC necessitated

relocating most of the ADP equipment to a different site for

approximately 3 months. The NASA STI Facility was chosen as the

most cost effective practical location and the equipment was moved

on July 16.

Everyone involved was committed to accomplishing this task without

impact to the STI products and services especially online access

to NASA/RECON. We were successful.

You have probably heard about the recent NASA Headquarters

reorganization. We are certain you will be happy to know that

the integrity of the STI program was maintained and no impact

on STI products or services is expected. The STI Branch was

reassigned intact to the new Logistics Management and Information

Programs Division headed by Lawrence W. Vogel. Colonel Vogel's

long association with the space program and his interest in

scientific and technical information foretells a vibrant and cost

effective information dissemination program.

Louis N. Lushina, previously Director of the Information Systems

Division of which the STIB was a part, has been appointed to the

position of Assistant Associate Administrator for Management.

Mr. Lushina's continued dedication and support of the NASA STI

program is assured.

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OR_Gh'qA!_ P,_,_E IS

N/ A

%lahonal Aeronauttcs and

Space Adm)nfstrahon

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

AUGUST 1982

CONTENTS PAGE

1200 Baud TrY Support l

Revision of NASA SP-449, A Catalog of NASA Special

Publications l

Purging of Unused Stored Searches 2

NASA/RECON Basic Training 2

NASA/RECON Advanced Training 2

1200 Baud TrY Support

Revision of SP-449

The highly recommended capability of 1200 baud access for

NASA RECON dial-in users is now a reality. By dialing

301-621-2950 direct, you may now access RECON with 300 or

1200 baud modems that are Bell 103, It3, or 212 compatible.

The 621-2950 rotary will automatically adjust to a user coming

in on 300 or 1200 baud. This means that in addition to

supporting our 300 baud users in the normal manner, users that

have a Bell 212 compatible modem may now access RECON at 1200

baud using the same telephone number.

For Racal Vadic 34XX series (with 1200 baud modems), RECON can

be accessed by dialing 301-62]-2958.

Telenet users now have 1200 baud support. To access Telenet

at 1200 baud, dial the Telenet Bell 1200 number or Vadic 1200

number, whichever is closer to your city.

The special publication entitled "A Catalog of NASA Special

Publications" is undergoing revision. The new edition will

include SP's (Special Publications), CP's (Conference

Publications) and RP (Reference Publications) that have been

added to the NASA data base since June 1981. The revised

edition, scheduled to be published this fall, wil] contain

about 1,400 entries, and will be indexed using the 75

subject categories of STA____RR, NASA's abstract journal.

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Techmcal Information

Facility in Baltimore Maryland (Telephone (301) 859 5300

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

ext 286) Other problems, suggesttons and comments ma_, be

d_rected to Buford Smith or John Wdson (Telephone (202_

755-3465. NASA Headquarters Code NIT 42 Wash ngto .

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Purging of Unused

Stored Searches

Users who have created stored searches that have served their

purpose or are no longer used are encouraged to purge them

from their reserved spaces.

NASA/RECON Basic

Training

NASA/RECON Advanced

Training

NASA/RECON Basic Training sessions (2 days) will be scheduled

at the Facility on October 25 and 26 (Monday and Tuesday) if

sufficient interest is shown. These two days are immediately

before the DTIC Annual Users Conference in Alexandria and

three calendar days after the annual ASIS meeting, scheduled

this year in Columbus, Ohio.

Please communicate your intentions to Mr. Philip F. Eckert,

Manager, Information Services Department at the Facility,

301-859-5300, X374.

A two-day NASA/RECON Advanced Training session is planned to be

held for users in the South or the Southeast in mid-December.

Users located in this geographical area are requested to advise

Mr. Philip F. Eckert (301-859-5300, X374) if they could attend

and what would be the most desirable location. A host site is

needed and anyone who will volunteer to be the host will be

greatly appreciated.

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N/ A

Nabonal Aeronauhcs and

Space Adm_ntstrahon

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

82/9

SEPTEMBER 1982 CONTE NTS

NASA Thesaurus - 1982 Edition I

SuDocs Ciasiflcation Numbers on NASA Documents - A

Cautionary Note 2

NASA/RECON Training 2

Enhanced Display Capability for Dial-Up Terminals 2

PAGE

NASA Thesaurus The two-volume 1982 edition of the NASA Thesaurus will be

available from NASA and NTIS in November as NASA SP-705Io

Volume 1, the Hierarchical Listing, consists of 840 pages -

listing over 20,000 terms and cross references and their

hierarchies, totalling over 155,000 entries. The detail

of the hierarchies is easily illustrated by the term

SATELLITES, which has some 500 Broader, Narrower, and

Related terms.

Volume 2, the Access Vocabulary, consisting of some 40,000

entries, is a unique tool providing access to any word

including numeric 'Words" in theL term by utilizing a

permuted index. In addition to the regular permutations

that are computer generated, intellectually identified

'_rds" that contain '_ord" or 'Words" within the word

are made accessible through manual coding. Other word

entries such as chemical abbreviations and abbreviation

of states are also included.

Users registered with NASA for either STAR, Aerospace

Medicine and Biology, or Aeronautical Engineering, or

RECON publications will receive copies by automatic

distribution. All online RECON users will also receive

copies by automatic distribution.

RECON operational problems may be d,rected to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Techmcat Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland (Telephone (301)-869-5300

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

exI 286) Other problems, suggest+ons and comments may be

d,rected to Buford Smith or John Wdson (Telephone (202_

755-3465. NASA Headquarters. Code NIT 42. Washington

D C 20546}

4

RECON User's Bulletin N/LRA

SuDocs Classification

Numbers - A Cautionary

Note

NASA/RECON Training

Plans

Commencing in STAR 11 last June, the SuDocs Classification

Numbers have been included in the citations for NASAsponsored documents. Listed below are five samples of these

numbers. Note the lack of hyphens after NAS, the appearance

of a colon before a group of three to six digits...and the

matching of these digits with the NASA report number.

ENTER:

D 3/_l

DISPLRY 03/4/1-S OF S

82N21tl@ 81100/00 RPTe: NRSI_-SP-453 NRS ;.21:4S3 LC-81-GO011_

82N20494 82/03/00 RPTa: NRS_-CP-2220 NRS 1.gS:2220

BL_20_ZG 73/_]4/C0 RPT#: N_S_-CR-161227 t,'_E!.2G:lE1227

_2N20238 82/_3/00 RPTa: NASR-TP-I.a98 NRS 1.60:1998 f't-376

32N2019_ 62/02/00 RPTa: NRS;i-TH-84214 _-882_, NRS 1.1S:8421=

Do not attempt to SELECT a document with the SELECT command

using the SuDocs number. The colon will treat your SELECT

command as a "root" search. Again, always EXPAND the SuDocs

number and SELECT the E reference.

Basic Training

Basic NASA/RECON training will be held at the Facility on

October 25 and 26. It is not too late to siqn up for this

training.

Advanced Training

The Marshall Space Flight Center and Redstone have kindly

offered to co-host NASA/RECON Advanced Training on December 7

and 8, 1982. Please communicate your plans to Mr. Philip F.

Eckert at the Facility, (301) 859-5300, Ext. 374. For hotel

recommendations in Huntsville, consult Ms. Annette Tingle at

Marshall, (205) 453-1880 or Ms. Nancy Stilson at Redstone,

(205) 876-5181.

Enhanced Display

Capability

On September 30, the display capability for a single DISPLAY

command was expanded from 10 lines to 23 lines. This

expansion means that a single citation and abstract (Format 2)

will be displayed with fewer commands. For example, a record

containing 40 lines will now display with the DISPLAY command

and one PAGEing. Heretofore, three PAGEIng commands were

required.

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N/ A

t'4ahonal Aeronautcs and

3pace Adm_nrstrahon

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

82/10

OCTOBER 1982 CONTE NTS

NASA Lexical Dictionary

Charge for NASA Literature Searches

NASA Tech Briefs

Type Command

NASA/RECON Training

PAGE

I

1

2

2

2

NASA Lexical Dictionary

Charge for NASA

Literature Serarches

NASA Tech Briefs

Bui]ding on the machine-aided indexing procedures' developed

at DTIC, work is under way to create a NASA ]exical dictionary

capab]e of automatical]y switching DTIC subject terms to

NASA terms. The idea is to switch terms that are already on

magnetic tape by computer methods. Pi]ot tests have indicated

that the system will automatical]y supply appropriate NASA

terms for DTIC terms. Non-matching terms wiIi be reviewed

by the indexers and intellectually switched to appropriate

NASA terms for insertion in the ]exical dictionary. Potential

to serve as a bui]ding block for mu]tidatabase subject switching is evident. A ]ong-range goa] of the NASA ]exical dictionary

is to achieve subject switching of other machine-readable data

bases whose records may be candidates for the NASA data base.

In 1983 NASA will discontinue the free search service that has

been provided by the NASA STI Fdcility. Beginning January 3,

a charge of $80.00 will be made for each search performed by

the Facility, other than those made for NASA installations Or

universities. Billing procedures are currently in preparation.

Field RECON users will not be affected by this change except

for those RECON users that have also utilized the free NASA

literature search service. Those users can probably expect

greater use of their NASA/RECON Dial-In capability than heretofore.

NASA Tech Briefs up to and including Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter 1980)

are available on RECON displaying title, author, NASA Center

case number, and B-number.

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland, (Telephone: (301)-859-5300

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

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

d_rected to Buford Smith or John Wdson (Telephone t202(-

755-3465, NASA Headquarters Code NIT 42. Washlngto_

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NASA Tech Briefs

(cont'd)

Type Command

NASA/RECON Tra ining

The adding of 1981 and 1982 Tech Briefs to the NASA data

base is in process. By mid-November, the Spring 1981 subset will be available on RECON. The remainder of the 1981

and all of the 1982 Tech Briefs will be processed in the

data base in early 1983.

A Type Command (T) has been reinstated for a11TTY Type

terminals. Currently, the Type Command is limited to a

single citation including the indexing and the abstract.

You will be notified when it is expanded.

Advanced NASA/RECON training will be held at Marsha11/Redstone

on December 7-8, 1982. It is not too late to sign up for

this training. For further details, see NASA/RECON Bulletin

82/9, September 1982.

Basic NASA/RECON training was held at the Facility on October 25-

26 for 33 attendees representing 21 organizations, including 3

government agencies.

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NASA

Nahonal AeronautiCS and

Space Adm_n_straton

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

82/11

NOVEMBER 1982

NASA Facl 1i ty

Computer Upgrade

1982 COSMIC Catalog

CONTE NT$

NASA Facility Computer Upgrade

PAGE

1

1982 COSHIC Catalog

Onllne Search Teleconference Service - by

Carol Sterkin, JPL, Pasadena, CA 2

Key References for Airfoil Data 3

Offer of Special Collection

RECON Training Workshops

By now all RECON users should have noted the increased

rapidity of the responses to their RECON commands. Well,

there Is a reason for it! In late October the Facility

mainframe computer, the IBH-4341, was upgraded from a

Group I to a Group 2 insta]latlon. The upgrade was from

0.8 HIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) to 1.2 HIPS

for CPU processing and from 4 Mbytes to 8 Mbytes of memory

resulting In a substantial throughput improvement.

The week of November I-5 was a recordbreaker for RECON -

a new weekiy high of 66,633 commands was processed

including a new daily high of ]5,276 commands. Because

of the computer upgrade, the system's responsiveness was

excellent despite the heavy activity.

In late October the entire CPA (Computer Program Abstracts)

file (many entries were obsolete) was purged from the STIHS

Data Base and replaced by the current COSMIC Catalog of

computer program _ummarles. The new input consists of 1,264

citations and abstracts ranging from 82MI0001 through 82Ml1264.

The new M accessions are similar in format to the purged

accessions.

Page G-2 of Appendix G of the RECON User's Manual should be

changed to read:

Subject

Indexing Text Text

Coverage MJS MNS Index|no Search

1982 - Present Yes No Yes Yes

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore. Maryland. (Telephone (301)-859 5300

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

ext 286t Other problems suggestions and comments may be

dfrected to Buford SmJth Or John Wdson rl-elephone ,2021 •

755-3465 NASA Headquarters Cod_ NIT 42 VVashmglon

D C 20546!

RECON User's Buile_n

1982 COSMIC Catalog

(cont'd)

Online Search TeleConference Service -

by Carol Sterkin -

JPL

Both the titles and abstracts are text searchable using the

standard title (ATL,UTP) or abstract (TX,AX) mnemonics.

Field users may scan or print a portion of the catalog

1oca|Iy; or they may print the whole catalog by executing

the stored search COSMIC82 by employment of the Query Command.

First

Second -

Third

Begin Search

LA 82/M

Q EXECUTE COSMIC82(ID43)

You may examine the stored query by employing these two

commands:

q DISPLAY C0SMIC82(ID43)

Q DISPLAY COSMIC82/23-25(ID43)

Several months ago the Online Database Center of the JPL

Library inaugurated an online search teleconference service.

The service enables the requester to monitor the course of

a search (on the nearest dial-up terminal) as it is performed

by the:searcher in the Library. The requester participates

via telephone, by providing feedback on the relevance of the

references displayed. Search results can then be printed out,

if desired, at the requester_s terminal.

There are several advantages to the teleconference service.

Instant information can be provided to search requesters at

any location, however remote from the Library, and it is as

near as the nearest (dial-up) terminal. (A search can even

be performed for an individual while on travel). The

requester can participate in the course of the search without

leaving his office or other location. By printing the

information online at the requesterts location, in-house mall

delays are avoided. Also, the service is cost-effective both

from the standpoint of library personnel and from the standpoint of time saved by requesters.

Only a modest expense was incurred to provide this service,

the cost of an additional modemphone located near the dia}-

up terminaI of the 0nIine Database Center. An additional

telephone was also provided to faci]itate conversation with

the requester during the course of the search. The modemphone

is connected so that it receives the information transmitted

from the computer to the terminal in the Library. The

requester dials the number of the modemphone at his terminal

and he is connected to it via the acoustic coupler (or modem),

so that the information transmitted to the Library terminal

is also transmitted to the requester_s terminal, thus enabling

him to monitor the search.

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ST,[ FAC!LITY

r=.J-:_.!

Online Search X C

Teleconference _ /) s -,_ /

Service t \ ( / ) ,/

(cont'd) _', \ - " /

\ / \ / \ ' 1 k | _ "r,:-,_.-.I__

..___.to j , , ?o', l

$chlilit|¢ Oligrim of JPL Hookup

I. Master operator Initiates i IECON session (A) using Modem (F).

2. Voice communication is established (B) bet_veen the master operator end the

slave operator.

3. Slave operator establishes data communication (C) by ceiling modem (E) from

mda (O).

4= A specially fabricated cable (G) Is required to attach the two modems (E end F)

"to the master terminel.

" S. For further details, call Carol Sterkin at JPL, (21]) ]54-6911.

Key References for

Airfoil Data

Almost all reference personnel today are somewhat stymied

when attempting to field reference questions on airfoil data.

Responding to such questions is not easy because thls type

of data is not generally available from computerized data

banks; and it is exceedingly elusive in manual files.

The RECON citation displayed below is from the NASA Library

Network. The document, entitled Summary of Airfoi| Data,

was pub||shed at Langley in 1945 and is perhaps one of the

best references in the world on airfoil data. NACA airfoil

development began in |929. The NACA number system for

airfoi|s, e.g., NACA-2415, NACA-23015, NACA-652-O15, etc.,

is described completely for the |6-year period ending in

1945. The airfoil data, in both graDhica] and tabu]ar Form,

wi]| provide a host of answers to reference queries.

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RECON User's Bulletin

Key References

for Airfoil Data

(cont'd)

Every aeronautical research library should have a copy of this

publication. Copies are available at NTIS for $21.00. Order

the publication by the report number, NACA-TR-824, and its

title. It is available under the current "Rush Order" category

at NTIS.

t t t TTL/SURRARY JH.2 AZRFOIL

ENTER=

DZBPLAY 0t/2/t

77V29277 194S ZSS= E7 TLS21.A33 N0.84

AUTH. A/ABBOTT, IRA HERBERT,_ B/DO_NHOFF, ALBERT [OUAR0 UON,_ C/STZVERS. LOU:S

B. PATt I/OOINT AUTHOR.: C/:OINT AUTHOR.

UTTL= H SURRARY OF AIRFOIL m. DATA, AZRFOILS DATA.

NATZONAL AOVISORY CORRITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS. REPORT N0. 024. UASHZNGTON,

NATIONAL ADVISORY CORRZTTEE FOR AERONAUTZC$. REPORT NO. 324.

LC= A£ROFOILS.

NASA= / AIRFOILS/ HANDBOOKS/ TABLES COATA_

RAIN-AUTH TRACE-SERS_TZTL*AUTHe CATLG BY-ARES-ATL

77102/i!2 AVAIL= / ARES-ATL

Sue Seward of Langley, upon review of this article, suggested

inclusion of the followlng additlonal references on alrfoll

data that can be displayed on your RECON equlpment.

ACCoPOT,YER,¢LN,GCH,P&O,CUL,AUIUIL

FORRAT-OF..FZNITtON ACCEPTED.

OZSPLAY 99/4/t-B OF S

74A42838 ?4/Bg/gB t6 PAGES RUTH= A/RILEY, S, 3.

uTTLI ON THE DESIGN OF AIRFOILS FOR LOll REYNOLDS NURBERS

81V22Ebm tY8t I_AYZ_.A4Z ¶YUI v11_o J_U P. = ¢¢.L. _ 3S CA. AUTHt

A/ALTHJ_JS, DIETER: |/UORTRANN, FRANZ XAUER

BTUTTOARTER PROFILKATALOG I z

7_vZ_H46 ° _776 TLS74.UB 4S P. I 31 CRo AUTHR A/UORTRANN, F

AIRFOIL SYNTHESIS TECNNZgUES. --

78V13385 t964 TLST#.A4R543 LC-62-694S 28t P. ILLUS. 29 CA.

AUTHs A/RZEOELS, FRZEORZCH UILHELR.

&EROFOIL SECTIONS: RESULTS FKOR UZNO-TU_NEL ZNVESTIOAT_ONS. THEORE'rICAL

FOUNDATIONS.

7SU13892 t9S9 TL672.A2 19S9 LC-6B-t6|t 693 P. = ZLL. _ 22 ¢R.

AUTHt A/A88OTT, IRA HERBERT: B/OOENHOFF, ALBERT EOUARO

THEORY OF UZNO SECTIONS =

DISPLAY 72v41sst/*

, 72v41SS4 t97t TLS74.A4R49 LC-71-tS2SB? 443 P. ILLUS. 24 CA.

AUTH, A/RICE, RICHAF.L S.

HANDBOOK 0F AZRFOIL SECTIONS FOR LCQHT AIRCRAFT,

Offer of

Special Collection

RECON Training

Workshops

The Facility has a bound collection of the Congressiona]

Record from 1963 through 1974, excluding the years 1965 and

1969. The collectlon requires 42 linear feet of shelving

and is hereby offered to any NASA installation, on a firstcall, First-serve basis. If there is no response by

December 21, the collection will then be offered to any

RECON user on a flrst-call, flrst-serve basis.

RECON Advanced Trainln 9 - December 7-8, 1982

RECON Advanced Training is scheduled at MarshalI/Redstone in

Huntsville, AL on December 7 and 8. It is not too late to

sign up. For details, see NASA/RECON Bulletin 82/9 of

September 1982.

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RECON Training

Workshops

(cont'd)

RECON Basic Training - January 18-19, 1983

RECON Basic Training is scheduled to be held at the Facility

on January 18 and 19, 1983.

RECON Basic and Advanced Training - March 21-24, 1983

Basic Tralnln9 - March 21-22, 1983 (Mon.& Tues.)

California Institute of Tech. Cal. Tech. hostess is

Graduate Aeronautical Labs. Ms. Virginia Anderson

1201E. California Blvd. (213) 356-4521

Pasadena, CA 91125

Advanced Training = March 23-24_ 1983 (Wed. ¢ Thurs.)

Hughes Aircraft Co.

.2000 E. El Segundo Blvd.

•El Segundo, CA 90245

Hughes Aircraft hostess

is Ms. Jeanne Balikos

(213) 616-0408

Organizations planning to send one or more representatives to

these workshops are requested to inform Mr. Philip F, Eckert

at the Facility of their plans (301) 859-5300, Ext. 363 or 374.

NASA

Nahonal Aeronauhcs and

Space Adm_n_strahon

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

82/12

DECEMBER 1982

PAGE

CONTENTS

The "A" Series - Produced by the Technical Information

Service (TIS) of the American Institute of Aeronautics

and Astronautics (AIAA) 1

NASA/RECON Training 2

New Charges for 1983 3

The "A '_ Series Commencing with this bulletin, NASA Headquarters will feature

on a monthly or bimonthly basis for the next several months

an accession number series of the NASA data base. The first

accession series to be described is the largest in the data

base - the A Series.

The A Series has several aliases - A, IA, A10K, A-10000, and

IAA. The A80K Series (or A-80000) is not considered part of

the Series today. The accessions in this short-lived subset

of the data base (1964-1969) were used for the Library of

Congress input to the Continuing Bibliography entitled,

Aerospace Medicine ¢ Biology - NASA SP-70II. IAA, of course,

is the abbreviation for International Aerospace Abstracts,

which has been produced since January 1961. From January 1961

to December 1962, the journal was produced monthly on a manual

basis and was funded by the National Science Foundation and

the United States Air Force. Since January I963, the journal

has been produced on a semimonthly basis by the Technical

Information Service (TIS) of the American Institute of

Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) under contract with NASA.

The AIAA was formally organized on January 1, 1963 as a

result of a merger between the Institute of Aerospace Sciences

(IAS) and the American Rocket Society (ARS). The abstract

section of the journal, front matter, and covers have been

prepared in New York City. As a cooperative measure and to

insure full compatibility with STAR, the IAA indexing group

was instructed from the very beginning to use the NASA

indexing authority lists - the SubJect Authority List from

1962 through 1967 and the NASA Thesaurus from 1968 to date.

Employing similar input formats, the camera-ready copies of

the IAA subject indexes were prepared from the Facility tapes

that were processed by special programs at the National

RECON operational problems may be d_rected to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Informahon

Facility in Baltimore, Maryland (Telephone: (301)-859-53OO

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

ext 286) Other problems, suggeshons and comments may be

d_rected to Buford Smith or John Wdson (Telephone i202)

755-3465. NASA Headquarters. Code NIT 42. Washington

D C 20546>

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The "A" Series

(cont Id)

Library of Hedicine (in the 1960's) and at GPO (in the 1970's

and 1980_s). All indexes for both STAR and IAA are currently

being generated by the Videocomp at GPO. The camera-ready

copy of the IAA abstract section of the semimonthly journal

continues today to be produced in the New York area.

As a major supplier to the overall NASA data base, the AIAA

Technical Information Service continues today to be the

heaviest contributor, excluding the Facility, to the NASA

Thesaurus. Each new term recommended as an added entry to

the NASA Thesaurus by TIS has been submitted in a highly

professional manner, suitably supported by backup documentation.

Through Issue 24 of 1982 (December 15, 1982) the IAA accession

population was in excess of 705,000. For the year 38,267

accessions had been added. Over a 20-year period the average

input has been 35,295 per year. In general, STAR covers the

report literature (more about STAR in an early 1983 bulletin).

Complementary coverage of the so-called "open literature t' -

books, journal articles, and other formally published materials -

is provided by International Aerospace Abstracts. Together, the

two journals STA..__RR and IAA cover the world's current literature

dealing with aerospace/aeronautics science and technology. By

special cooperation between a government agency (NASA) and a

private organization (AIAA), the journals are produced alternately, two each per month, throughout the year (IAA on the

1st and ]Sth and STAR on the 8th and 23rd). Both use the same

category scheme, the same indexing authority, and both contain

basically the same indexes. IAA titles are text searchable for

the whole collection (1963 to date); the abstracts are text

searchable from 1972 to date.

A quick scan of the front matter of the Annual SubJect Index for

IAA will reveal a listing of over 500 periodicals of which over

half are foreign that are scanned for input. TIS acquisitioners

attempt to select the most relevant articles for the IAA journal;

they must be selective because the size of the accession series

for any given year is a function of the funding. A high proportion of foreign articles is selected, cataloged, and abstracted

in English with a language note in the citation indicating the

language, e.g., In FRENCH. Later, if a translation of a previously announced article appears, the translation may be

reannounced, with a reference note in the abstract portion as

follows: For abstract, see issue 01, p. 1234, Accession No.

A81-34567.

Virtually ali users of the NASA scientific and technical

information system are extremely satisfied with the variety

of information services in the overall data base. Countless

times this expression has been made, _The search results were

excellent because they contained the _open literature _ that

complemented or augmented the report literature."

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NASA/REC0N Training

New Charges for

1983

Holiday Greetings

NASA/RECON advanced training sessions were held at Marshall

Space Flight Center and Redstone Scientific Information

"Center in Huntsville on December 7 and 8. Twenty-one

information specialists attended the sessions as follows:

12 from RSlC, 5 from Marshal1, 2 from NSTL, and 2 from

Arnold Air Force Station.

NASA/RECON training is scheduled in January and March as

follows:

Basic Training at the Facility - January 18-19, 1983

Basic Training at Cal Tech - Pasadena, CA, March 21-22,

1983

Advanced Training at Hughes - El Segundo, CA, March 23-24,

1983

For details, see NASA/RECON User's Bulletln 82/11 of November

1982.

NASA/RECON. NASA/RECON user charges will be changed in 1983

as follows:

o The $120.00 annual maintenance charge is reduced

to $60.00 for the second and succeeding years.

o The $15.00 per connect hour charge will be changed

to $20.00 per hour.

o The 3 cents per printed citation will be increased

to 5 cents per printed citation.

o The $7.00 per connect hour for TELENET service wi11

remain unchanged.

Literature Searches. The free literature search service

provided by the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility will be d_scontinued to other than universities and

NASA installations. Beginning January 3, 1983, a charge of

$80.00 will be made for each search that is performed by a

Facility analyst. Billing procedures for literature searches

were mailed to the overall NASA user community on November 30,

1982.

The Scientific and Technical Information Branch at NASA Headquarters joins the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in extending holiday greetings to the NASA User

Community.

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N/ A

Nahonal Aeronauhcs and

'_pace Adm_nLstrahon

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

83/1

JANUARY 1983

CONTENTS

The STAR Series - Produced by NASA

New RECON File Collections

Index for 1982 RECON Userts Bulletin

NASA/RECON Training Plans

User Alert

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3

The STAR Series Last month NASA Headquarters in RECON User's Bulletin 82/12

discussed the "A" Series and promised to feature an accession

series of the NASA data base on a monthly or bimonthly basis

for the next several months.

STAR, the accession series For this bulletin, was introduced

in the early 1960's - a new product designed to ease the

myriad tasks of aerospace/aeronautics librarians.

STAR ingredients were the NIOK accessions. The NIOK Series

-_o called IN or N-IO000) actually appeared in a NASA

publication entitled Technical Publication Announcements

(TPA) in 1962. It was short-lived and succeeded by STAR

(Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports) on January 8,

1963, which continues to be NASA's primary medium For

announcing the unclassified, unlimited report literature to

the aerospace community.

STAR or the NIOK _eries is the second most populous accession

series in the overall NASA data base. Through STAR 24

(December 23, 1982) there were 510,690 STAR accessions in

the data base. The abstract journal STAR is published semimonthly (on the 8th and 23rd) with each issue containing

about 950 to 1050 accessions. The material entered into

STAR consists of both domestic and Foreign unclassified,

unlimited technical reports. STAR accessions cover research

reports that, with rare exceptions, have been published in

the past two years. In addition to technical reports, STAR

covers pertinent theses, publicly available trCnslations, and

NASA-owned patents and patent appIications. Citations from

other government agencies, mainly From the Departments of

Defense, Energy, Transportation (including FAA), and Commerce

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility m Baltimore Maryland (Telephone (301)-859-53OO

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

ext 286) Other problems, suggestions and comments may be

dtrected to Buford Smith Or John Wilson (Telephone (202)

755-3465. NASA Headquarters, Code NIT 42 Washington

D C 20546_

RECON User's Bulletin

le STAR Series

(cont'd)

New RECON File

Collectlons

Index for 1982 RECON

User's Bulletin

NASA/RECON Training

Plans

(including NTIS), that are within the scope of NASA's

interest are selected and announced in STAR. In addition,

the European Space Agency (ESA) provides several hundred

technical reports per year that are originated abroad.

Virtually all new NASA-funded (R&D) documents are entered

into the NIOK data base. The exceptions are those documents

that contain a paucity of technical information or are of odd

size and/or shape, and those that have distribution limltations for administrative or security reasons.

The Primary Data Base for STAR (1968 - to date) contains

about 380,000 accessions as compared to the Alternate Data_ ....

Base (1962-1967) With 130,000 accessions - almost a 3 to |

ratio. All STAR accessions are text searchable by the Title

family (Title, Title Supplement, Ti.tle Extension, and the

Notation of Content). STAR abstracts and analytic notes

are text searchable from 1972 to date. All STAR accessions

are subject term searchable by two levels of indexing -

major terms or minor terms.

On January 3, 1983, two new file collections, O and P, were

implemented on the RECON network for dedicated and dial-up

users. File Co|lectlon 0 is equal to File Collection D less

the X70K series; and File Collection P is equal to File

Collection N less the X70K series.

The X70K series contains several thousand limited distribution

and security classified accessions that are generally unavailable to a large segment of the RECON user community.

All users that have classified profiles in either the DTIC

or NASA registration files are still given the use of File

Collections D and N. Users without classified profiles

default to File Collection 0 and can access file Collection P.

These changes were made in recognition of DOD security policies.

Affected users will receive additional information via future

correspondence from NASA.

The Index for NASA/RECON User's Bulletin 82/1 through 82/12

is forwarded as a separate entity with this bulletin.

A RECON basic training workshop was conducted at the Facility

on January 18 and 19 for 28 information specialists representing 17 government agencies or contractors.

NASA/RECON basic and advanced training workshops are scheduled

at CaI Tech (Pasadena) and Hughes Aircraft (El Segundo) on

March 21-22 and March 23-24, respectively. See RECON User's

Bulletln 82/11 for details.

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RECON User's Bulletin

User Alert In order to respond quickly to problems that occasionally

occur w|th RECON search processingt a special message has

been developed that can be sent |n a matter of seconds from

the Facility to the "troubled 'l user. It is shown below.

&TTENT ION

RECON HIM) TROUBLE. PROCEtlSZN8 YOUR ZNPUT. PLEASE CONTACT THE RECON

COORDZN4TOR BEFORE ENTERTNO ANOTHER COPIIqANO. 384-624-2998 OR

3e _-859-5311e EXT. 286.

TH_NK YOU FOR YOUR COOPER_TZON
January- December 1982

82/1 through 82/12

A

Airfoil Data

"A" Series

C

Charge for Literature Searches

Computer Upgrade

COSMIC Catalog - 1982

Charges for 1983 - New

D

Display Order of Accessions

Document Procurement

Direct Access Storage Device (IBM-3380 DASD)

Display Capability - Enhanced

H

HELP Command

L

LexicaI Dictionary

N

New RECON Equipment

NALNET Pocket Guide

NACA Annual Reports

NASA Headquarters Reorganization

0

Online Search Teleconference Services

Issue

82/11

82/12

82/10

82/11

82/11

82/12

82/2

82/3

82/7

82/9

82/5

82/10

82/3

82/4

82/4

82/7

82/11

1

I

1

2
Issu__..je

P

Price Change

Pocket Guide - NALNET

82/1 2

82/4 I

Query Command

Q

82/6 1

R

RECON Training

REC0N Equipment

82/I 1

82/3 3

82/4 1

82/5 2

82/8 2

82/9 2

82/10 2

82/12 4

8213 1

S

SP-449 - Revision of

Stored Searches - Purging of Unused

SuDocs Classification Numbers

82/8 I

82/8 1

82/9 1

T

TTY Support - 1200 Baud

Thesaurus - NASA

Tech Briefs

Type Command for TTY Equipment

82/8 1

82/9 i

82/10 1

82/10 2

U

!

UTS-400 Features

UPDATES for NASA R&D Contractors

82/6 1

82/7 1

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Nahonal Aeronauhcs and

'Space Admpn_stratlon

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

83/2

FEBRUARY 1983

PAGE

CONTE NTS

NASA/RECON Training Plans ]

Four Useful References from the NASA Data Base

for Aeronautical Engineers 2

New RECON Records 3

STAR Issues 1 & 2 for 1983 3

NASA/REC0N Training

Four Usef_l References

NASA/RECON basic and advanced training workshops are

scheduled at Ca] Tech (Pasadena) and Hughes Aircraft

(El Segundo) on March 21-22 and March 23-24, respectively. See RECON User's Bulletin 82/1l for details.

A two-day NASA/RECON advanced training workshop is

planned for users in the New England area in May or

June. Users located in thls area are requested to

inform Mr. Philip F. Eckert (301-859-5300, X374) if

they could attend and what would be the most desirable

dates and location. A host site is needed, and anyone

who will volunteer to be the host will be greatly

appreciated.

The first two references shown below are high-quality,

authoritative research efforts that deal with aircraft

altitude and aircraft speed (mph and knots), and the

speed of sound (Mach ]) at various altitudes (pressure

altitudes in terms of geopotential feet). The first

reference (NASA TN-D-822) was published in August 1961

and is noteworthy for the introduction of a new unit of

height - geopotential feet - a unit that takes into account

the decrease of the gravity constant with height. The

second reference (NASA RP-1046) is an in-depth treatise on the

measurement of aircraft speed and altitude and is based, in

part, upon the "U.S. Standard Atmosphere, 1976," whereas the

first reference was based, in part, upon the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) standard atmosphere.

This reference has also been published as a textbook - as a

Wiley-lnterscience publication. See also 80V41360 and

81A32401.

RECON operational problems may be d,rected to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information

Facility in Baltimore, Maryland, (Telephone (301)-859-5300

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

ext 286) Other problems suggeshons and comments may be

d_rected to Buford Smith o; John Wdson ITelephone i202)-

755-3465 NASA Headquarters Cod{, NIT 42. Vk'ashmgton

D C 20546)

RECON User's Bulletin

_v- Useful References

'd)

From the two publications, Mach I speeds are as

Sea Level I _16,_00' to 82r000 ,'

TN-0-822 761.21 mph (661.48 kts) ] 660.()S mph (573.57 kts) RP-IO_ 761.22 mph (661.48 kts)

follows:

_6ro9o' co 6_8oo'

660.05 mph (573.$7 kcs)

Note: 660 mph and 573.5 kts are the commonly accepted Mach 1

values on which aircraft speeds are derived for

commercial airliners cruising at "jet altitudes."

Mach 0.82, a cruising speed for many airliners,

translates into 541 mph or 470 kts.

The third reference (NASA RP-I060) is a first-rate monograph

on subsonic aircraft, with emphasis on the estimation of

approximate size, weight, and power (engine) intended to

meet specified performance requirements - for both jetpowered and propeller-driven aircraft. Excellent descriptions

are given for first-generation air transports, secondgeneration transports, wide-body transports, and dedicated

cargo transports. Several aspects of technical evaluation

of the airplane from World War I through 1980 are presented.

This high-quality NASA RP (reference publication) is

currently being used as a textbook in some colleges and

universities. See also 81V14884.

The fourth reference is NASA SP-440, entitled '_#ind Tunnels

of NASA." This recent publicatfon makes a magnificent

effort to bridge the gap between the engineer and the layman in the comprehension of wind tunnel facilities and their

uses. See also 81V31156.

All four publications are available from NTIS.

0 ISPL_V 62N71316/2

62N71396 CRI'_GORY 21 RPTa: NASA TECHNICRL NOTE I)-r_2

PI_ES UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENT

RUTH: R/L.TVTJ_"STON. S. P.: B/GRR(:_t, M.

CORP:

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ABS:

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TABLES OF A,[IF.PEED, N..TITUOE. l_lO RRC_ NI._BER BASED ON I._TEST

DITERNATIONAL V_..LJ[S FOR ATI'IOSPI_RZC PROPERTIES RNO PHYSICAL CONSTANTS

National Reronautxc:s and S04¢e Rdaintstgation. I_ngley Research Center,

Haapton. Va.

TYPE 80N2429G/Z

80N24296*t ISSUE IS PAGE 1936 CATEGORY S RPTm: NASA-RP-I046

Lo12610 8C/05/00 311 PAGES UNCLASSIFIED DOCUHENT

Measurement of asrcratt speed and altitude

A/GRACE_, W.

National Aeronautics and Space AdmJnistratLon. Lang|ey Research Center.

Hampton, Va. AVAIL.NTIS SAP: HC A14/HF AGI

/*AIRCRAFT INSTRUHENTS/_AIRSPEED/oFLIGHT ALTITUDE

/ ACCURACY/ C.qLIBRATING/ PRESSURE MEFLSUREHENT/ STATIC PRESSURE

R.E.S.

Problecm 1hue|red In measuring speed and altitude vith pressure-actuated

Instruments (altimeter, airspeed indicator, true-airspeed indicator.

Machmeter. and vertica|-speed indicator) are exam;ned. Equations relating

total pressure and stati_ pressure to the (lye f|lght quantities are

presented, and criteria for the design of total and static pressure tubes

are 9_ven. Calibrations of typical static pressure lnsta|latlone (fuselage

nose, uLng tip, vertical fin, and fuselage vent) are pr_mented, varlets

methods for flAght calibration of these instal|at,one are described, and

the calibration of a particular tnstal|atton by tvo of th_ methods _s

described in deCaL1. Equations are g_ven for estimating the effects of

pressure Lag and |oaks. Test procedures for the |aboratory calibration of

the f*ve instruments are described, and accuracies of aechan*cal and

e|ectr_ca| instruments are presented. Operational use of the a]t_meter _o_

terrain clearance and vertical separation of aircraft ts discussed, along

uith flight technical errors and overall altitude errors o_ aircraft tn

cruise operations. Altitude-measuring techniques based on a variety of

properties o_ the Earth anQ the atmosphere are _ncludeG. T_o a_pena_xes

p_esent airspeed and a|trtude tab|es and sample calcu|ations for

_ete_minrng the various flight parameters from measured total and static

pressures.

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TYPE 8CN2924S/2

80N29245-# ISSUE 20 PAGE 2643 CATEGORY i RPT#: NASA-RP-I060

L-13367 8G/08/00 44S PAGES UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENT

UTTL: Subsonic aircraft: Evolution and the matching of size to performance

RUTH: R/LOFTIN. L. K.. JR.

CORP: National Aeronautics and Space Rdnlnistr•tion. L•ngley Rese•rch Center,

Hampton, V•. AVAIL.NTIS SAP: HC A19/HF RG1.._

/*RIRCRRFT DESIGN/*AIRCRAFT PERFORHRNCE/*_9_ _ EFFICIENCY/*PROPULSII/E

MAJS: EFFICIENCY/*$IZE (DIHENSIONS)/*TRRNSPORT AIRCRRrMINS: / AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS/ AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS/ AIRCRAFT NOISE/

AIRSPEED/ JET AIRCRAFT/ LIGHT AIRCRAFT/ WEIGHt (MRS_)

ABA: Author

ADS: Methods for estimating the approximate size. ueight, and pouer of aircraft

intended to eeot specified performance requirements •re presented for both

jet-pouored and propeller-drtven aircraft. The methods are s_mpLe and

require only the use of a pocket computer for rapid application to

specific sizing problems. Application of the methods is illustrated by

means of sizing studies of • series of jet-pouered and propeller-driven

aircraft uith varying design constraints. Some aspects of the technical

evolution of the airplane from 1918 to the present are •leo briefly

discussed.

UTTL:

RUTH:

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81N321S3*a ISSUE 23 PAGE 31S1 CATEGORY 9 RPT#: NASA-SP-4=O

81/00100 162 PAGES UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENT

Hind Tunne|s of NRSA

A/BAALS. O. O.: B/CORLISS, N. R.

National Aeronautics and Space Rdninistration, Haehington, D. C.

AVAIL.NTIS SAP: HC AOS/MF RC1

Original document contains color illustrations

/*HISTORIES/*WIND TUNNEL APPRRATUS/*WIND TUNNELS

/ RERODYNAHICS/ FLIGHT SIMULATORS/ HIND TUNNEL C.qLIBRRTION

T.M.

The contribution of _ind tunnels to aerodynamic studies Ls described. The

development of the _lnd t_nnel and the problems o_ caiibra¢Lon, scal_nc].

and instrumentation are d_scussed. The NASA ulnd tunnels form the bas_s

for the book, b_t Air Force, university, and industrial facilities are

also considered.

New RECON Records These new RECON records have been recorded:

• A new daily high for number of Commands

02-08-83

• A new weekly high for humber of _ornmands -

,Ehe week ending 01-28-83

• A new monthly high for number of commands -

January 1983

m 17,626 on

69,125 for

270,095 in

STAR Issues 1 and 2

STAR Issues 1 and 2 for 1983 will be mailed from Langley Research

Center on or before March _. Delay caused by new GPO contractor

problems•

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,/_ce Admrn_stratton

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

83/4

APRIL 1983

_I_ Ann_q_klr y

CONTENTS

NASA/RECON Training

Use of the KEEP Command with the ORDER Command

Online Ordering - More Info

Format & Coverage Changes to NASA/RECON

User's Bulletin

PAGE

I

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2

NASA/RECON Training

Use of the KEEP

Command with the

ORDER Command

NASA/RECON basic and advanced training sessions were held

at Cal Tech in Pasadena on March 21-22 for 39 information

specialists and librarians and at Hughes Aircraft in El

Segundo on March 23-24 for 44. This was the largest

number of retrieval personnel trained during two two-day

training sessions. The Chief of Scientific and Technical

Information Branch and staff at NASA Headquarters publicly

express their appreciation and gratitude to Ms. Jeanne

Anderson and the California Institute of Technology and

to Ms. Jeanne Balikos and the Hughes Aircraft Co., Electrooptical and Data Systems Group. These two hostesses and

their training facilities along with Ms. Carol Sterkin of

JPL, who was a voluntary instructor at both locations,

contributed heavily to make the 1983 California RECON

training program an unqualified success. Mr. Van A. Wente

also relays NASA'_appreciation to the appropriate authorities of Cal Tech, Hughes, and JPL.

The RECON advanced training workshop at the C.S. Draper Lab.,

555 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, is firmly scheduled

for May 24-25. We hope that all New England users will attend

and non-New England users are also invited to attend. For

hotel suggestions call Ms. Betty Edwards, 617-258-3555. Formal

written invitation packets were mailed to prospective attendees

on April 25.

You may scan a RECON set of accessions in Format 2 and KEEP

those accessions of interest by keying the KEEP Command after

an item has been displayed. You must enter the KEEP Command

before the next item is displayed.

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scmnttfic and Techn)cal Informat=on

Facdlty ir_ Balt(rnore. Maryland. (Telephone: (301)-859-5300

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

exI 286) Other problel_l'- suggestions and comments r_la',, b,e

directed to Buford Smith or Joml W,tson (Telephone 202,

755-3465. NASA Headquarter.', Code NIT-42 VVa.,,hmgt(.

D C 20546)

_ECON_,Jser's Bulletin |t,_ _

L . of the KEEP

Command with the

ORDER Command

(cont'd)

For example, scanning a set of 25 NIOK or NTOK accessions, you

may use the KEEP Command for items 3, 6, 15, 20, and 25. Set

99 would then have 5 members. As a labor saving technique, you

may use the ORDER Command for Set 99 by entering 0 99. Once

Set 99 has served its purpose, Release 99 by the Command, R 99.

Omitting the releasing of 99 could cause trouble later on

because 99 is a sanctuary for KEEP's until released or until

a BEGIN or BEGIN BYPASS is executed. An END search will not

snuff out set gg.

Onl ine Ordering

Format and Coverage

Changes

NASA contractors, U.S. Government agencies, and Government

contractors are now able to obtain NASA-generated documents

directly from the Facility at NTIS prices by using the NASA/

RECON Order Command. This service is limited to NASAgenerated documents that are identified by an asterisk

immediately following the accession number in a Format 2

display, e.g., 83N13419". Requests for non-NASA documents

from the above-named organizations will not be filled.

Commencing with the May issue, the NASA/RECON User's Bulletin

will be changed to the NASA STI-RECON Bulletin. The revised

Bulletin will cover developments in NASA Scientific and

technical information (STI) projects, products and services

in addi.tion to RECON items. In the interest of economy,

current stock (with the old telephone numbers for the RECON

Coordinator at the bottom of the first page) is being used

for this last issue. The new format for May 1983, will

contain the correct phone number for the RECON Coordinator,

which is 301-621-0300.

N/ A

Nahonal Aeronauhcs and

Space Adm_n_strahon

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

RECON User's Bulletin

83/3

MARCH 1983

25lh Annwersary

1958-1983

New FaqiIit¥ ....

Telephone Numbers

Ordering NASA

Documents by

NASA/RECON

CONTE NTS PA GE

New Facility Telephone Numbers 1

Ordering NASA Documents by NASA/RECON

Directory of Numerical Databases 2

A Bit of Boolean

NASA RECON Training

As a result of upgrading the Facility telephone system, new

Faciiity'_eleph0nes were made effective on Monday, March2l,

as follows:

New RECON Coordinator's Telephone No.

(HOTLINE)

(301) 621-0300

New RECON Data Line No. (301) 621-0350

New RECON Vadic Data Line No. (301) 621-036o

New Facility (Switchboard) No. (3oi) 621-0100

Telephone numbers of key personnel are given on pages 4 and 5.

Effective April I, 1983, non-NASA users may order selected

HASA documents for a fee from the NASA Scientific and Technical

Information Facility. To place your order, use the ORDER command,

as outlined in 4.3.15 of the NASA/RECON System User's Manual,

Revision 3, May 1980. (A modified version of the ORDER command

is being forwarded to RECON users.) Each document must be

ordered by NASA accession number, and only NASA documents with

an asterisk (*) immediately following the accession number will

be supplied.

Charges will be as follows:

Paper copy: For "N" accession numbers, the same price

as charged by NTIS. For "X" accession

numbers, no charge to authorized recipients.

RECON operational problems may be directed to the RECON

Coordinator at the NASA Scientific and Technical Informahon

Facility in Baltimore Maryland (Telephone: (301) 859 5300

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

ext 2861 Other problems suggest,ons and comments may be

directed to Buford'-Sm_th or John Wilson (Telephone (202)-

755-3465, NASA Headquarters, Code NIT 42 Washmgton

D C 20546)

RECON User's Builet_

_rdering NASA

ocuments by

NASA/RECON (cont'd)

Microfiche: Same as NTIS charge for "N" accession numbers.

No charge for "X" accession numbers to

authorized recipients.

There will be no change in present practices for NASA centers,

JPL, RSIC, IACs and STACs.

Directory of

Numerical Databases

A Bit of Boolean

As of March 1, 1983 a new File Collection Q, Directory of

Numerical Databases (DND), was made available on RECON for

the entire RECON user community.

The Directory is a referral listing of scientific and

technical data bases that are computer-readable and may be

used by NASA and its contractors. The DND provides a brief

description of each listed data base and givesCthe name and

telephone number of a key person from whom access details

may be obtained.

Descriptions of over one-hundred are provided, covering a

broad range of technical fields of interest to NASA. The

DND File Collection was compiled by the Scientific and

Technical Information Branch of NASA Headquarters. For

additional details about the DND, call John Wilson, Code

NIT-42 of NASA Headquarters, (202) 755-3465.

To access the DND, select File Collection Q, and Enter: HELP

X033 or HELP SEARCH Coll-q. The file is easily searchable by

text and non-text terms_ which are displayed in the HELP data.

Whether the RECON searcher knows it or not_ he or she is

employing Boolean logic every time a combine command is

performed. Little did George Boole know that his last name

would become an adjective, falling just short of becoming

a household word. As you have now guessed, a short_ short

treatise on Boole and his adjective (Boolean) will be given here.

George Boole was an English ]ogician and mathematician who

lived in England and Ireland in the I800's (1815-1864). He

was one of a very prominent group of mathematicians that also

included Arthur Cayley and James Joseph Sylvester, all of whom

made important contributions to the field of mathematics.

Boole, who spent most of his active years in Ireland, discovered

that it was possible to apply algebraic symbols to logic - a

step that led to his publishing a pamphlet called Mathematical

Analysis of Logic (1847). Believing it to be incomplete and --

Imperfect, he published a much more precise work, An Investi_aTheorles o ese cal

two works that the Boolean laws involving 0 and I and and/or/not

had their humble beginnings - and far-reaching,-multibillion_

dollar consequences.

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1ECON User's Builem

A Bit of Boolean

(cont' d)

NASA/RECON Training

For almost a hundred years, the so-called Boolean laws were

an academic curiosity. They were applied to set theory in the

late 1800's and early 1900's, but they were of no practical

value until a young billiant research assistant in the Department

of Electrical Engineering at the Ptassachusetts Institute of

Technology (HIT) in 1938 published the first paper demonstrating

that electrical relay and switching circuits behaved in accordance

with the Boolean laws or postulates. The author, now the Donner

Professor Emeritus of the Department of Electrical Engineering and

Computer Science at MIT, was Claude E. Shannon, and his paper was,.

A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switchinq Circuits (AIEE Translations, Volume 57, 193S, PP. 713-723). Shannon also was a coauthor of The Mathematical Theory of Communication and the founder

of Information Theory. A second significant paper followed by 14

years. It also demonstrated the practicality and usefulness of the

Boolean laws in An Application of Boolean Algebra to Switchin_

Circuit Design. Its notable author was Robert E. Stahler, and it

may be found in the Bell System Technical Journal, V.olume XXX!

March 1952, Number 2, pp. 280-305.

George Boole did not create all of the rules of logic as some of

his followers and admirers would like to believe. However, his

name deservedly appears to be well embedded in written materials

or spoken words that are pertinent to computerized retrieval

operations or to the |ogic section of a computer. For more about

George Boole, see The World of Mathematics, Volumes I and 3, by

James R. Newman, and An Introduction to the Foundations and

Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics by Howard Eves. Full descriptions of these two excellent works are:

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host HASA/RECON Advanced Training on May 2_-25. Organizations

planning to send one or more representatives to this workshop are

requested to inform Mr. Philip F. Eckert at the Facility of their

plans, (301) 621-0140.

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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION FACILITY

(operated under contract by PRC Government Information Systems)"

Mailing Address:

NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility

P.O. Box 8757

B.W.I. Airport, MD 21240

Location:

NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility

800 Elkridge Landing Road

Linthicum Heights, MD 21090

Telephone:(301)621-O100, Washington, DC (301)859-5300, Baltimore

"Note: Calls from the Washington, DC area may be direct dialed by

dialing 621-0 and the proper extension. Baltimore area calls must go

through the switchboard.

Herman W. Miles, Genera/Manager

Donald E. Jewell, Assistant Genera/Manager for Information Technology

Mary A. Huffer, Assistant Genera/Manager for Information Services

Thomas C. Kelly, Resources Management

Janice Freeman ' Document Processing

Philip French, Document Evaluator

Peggie Young, Acquisitions

Thelma L. Tillery, Accessions

Linda Albers, Publications

Ronald L. Buchan, Lexicography

Herner & Co., Cataloging, Indexing and Abstracting

Michael J. Streeks, Project Manager and Cataloging

Jacqueline Streeks, Indexing and Abstracting

Price, Williams & Assoc., Inc., Data Entry

Gladys M. Thomas, Manager

Logical l"echnical Services Corporation

Dr. James E. Beebe; Technology Transfer

Walter M. Heiland, Technology Communications

Earl Watterson, Library Services

Eric J. Vogel, Deputy Manager

Processing Department

Edith Dixon, Team I

Maxine Tucker, Team II

Katherine Goodman, Team III

NALNET Hotline, 621-0333

Telephone

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Hal Wynne, Search Service

Edna Fleek, Search Service

Bill Owens, Search Service

Dorothy Corbitt, Registrar!on and Document Supply_....

B. J. Bates, Applications Software

William Hand, Deputy Manager

Duchesne Clark, NALNET/NOIPS Group

Jirair Khatcheressian, RPCS/RMIS/Special Projects Group

Fred Cole, RECON/CAPS Group

Richard Hecox, Data Base Group

Yvonne Turner, Technical Editor

Donald E. Jewell, Computer Systems (Acting)

MaRie Morse, Computer Support

Patricia Brooks, Operations

Michael F. Moriarty, RECON Coordinator

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National Aeronautics and

Space Administration & Teeh Info

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

Bulletin

News

May 1983

Bulletin to Cover STI Activities

Beginning with this issue, the Bulletin will cover developments in NASA

s--c]-entificand technical information

(STI) projects, products, and services

of concern to our users. NASA/RECON

will continue to be covered as before.

Readers are invited to contribute

items that other users of NASA STI

will find useful. Send or telephone

them to John Wilson at Headquarters

(FTS 755-3465/Commercial 202-755-3465)

or Philip F. Eckert at the Facili_ty

(301) 859-5300.

Recent Changes in the STI Branch

Buford Smith has been named Head,

Systems and Retrieval Section (NIT-42).

Kay Voglewede has been named Acting

Head, Technical Publications Section

(NIT-43), following the death of

Frank Rowsome.

James Phillips, Head, Program and

Analysis Section (NIT-41), has assumed

the Library Administrator's activities

following the death of Albert String.

It is anticipated that a new Library

Administrator will be recruited.

Continuing Bibliographies under

Review

As a result of a survey of NASA

Centers and contractors, a review is

being initiated of several regularly

issued bibliographies to determine

how their usefulness might be improved.

As a first step the quarterly Earth

Resources (NASA SP-7041) is belng

reviewed by the Office of Space Science and Applications. Others planned

to be reviewed include Energy(NASA SP7043), also quarterly, and Aerospace

Medicine and Biology(NASA S_37)--

and Aeronautical Engineering(NASA SP7037), both monthly. Centers and

recipients of these publications are

being asked to participate.

Access to NASA/RECON

NASA has continued to expand online

access to NASA/RECON. Included are

government agencies and their contractors, and universities whose

scientific and engineering activities

relate to aeronautics and space

research. Therefore, your organization

may be qualified to gain online access

on a reimbursable basis.

Over two million citations (I.7 million

documents and 440,000 books) are accessible online via the NASA/RECON system.

NASA/RECON was developed initially to

serve the NASA Centers and for technology transfer through the various

Industrial Application Centers. Access to NASA/RECON not only includes

the NASA organizations but also over

150 users on a reimbursable basis.

These users pay an annual maintenance

fee to cover training, textual material,

and technical support. They also pay

online charges and communications cost.

Charges effective January l, 1983 are:

Maintenance Fee $120.00 First year

Maintenance Fee 60.00 2nd & subsequent year

Search Time 20.00 Connect hour

Citation Print .05 Each printed

at Facility

Telenet 7.00 Connect hour

251h Ann_sary

1958-1983
Multilingual Aeronautical Dictionary

This unique source book contains 876

pages of the latest lexicon of aeronautical research and development. It

provides users with 7319 terms, which

are defined in English and translated

into equivalent terms in Italian,

French, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, German,

Russian, Turkish, and Portuguese. The

dictionary also includes a list of

4000 often-used English-language

acronyms and abbreviations, many spacerelated, with their definitions.

The dictionary was developed by the

Technical Information Panel of the

Advisory Group for Aerospace Research

and Development (AGARD), an agency of

the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

(NATO). Scientists and engineers from

the NATO nations pooled their linquistic and technical exp.ertise to select

theterms for incluslon, prepare the

defi nitions, and provi de translated

equi val ents.

Now, you can add this 876-page Multilingual Aeronautical Dictionary to

your library for only $98.50, includin

postage and handling. You will receiv.

a handsome, hardbound volume, superbly

designed for years of helpful reference. Gold lettering is stamped onto

the deep-blue hardbound cover. Available from NITS.

Chemical Substances Information

Network (CSIN)

The Chemical Substances Information

Network (CSlN) developed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the

Council for Environmental Quality, is

well on its way to becoming a national

chemical information system. R&D staf

members and managers at Headquarters

and the Centers may find it useful.

CSIN is a distributed network of coordinated online information systems

designed to satisfy the need for infor

mation concerning chemical substances.

CSIN provides access to nomenclature

and composition; properties; productiol

and commerce; products and uses; exposure, effects, studies and research;

regulations, laws, and controls. Problems of data base administration and

management, such as limited access and

charging mechanisms, are being dealt

with, and provide guidelines for data

base managers. Potential users are

federal and state agencies, industry,

universities, and R&D institutions.

Millions of records are available

online.

For further information, call:

Dr. Sidney Siegel, Administrator

Chemical Substances Information

Network

Environmental Protection Agency

401M Street, S.W.

Washington, DC 20460

Telephone: 202-382-2256

Free NACA & NASA Documents

in Paper Copy

NACA and NASA duplicates of unclassified reports (several hundred) are now

available from Princeton University.

Receiver to pay shipping charges.

Contact Ms. Dee Hoelle, Engineering

Librarian, Princeton University,

Princeton, NJ 08544 (telephone:

609-452-3201) before July 15, 1983.

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NASA/STI Surveys Completed

NASA's Scientific and Technical Information Branch has recently concluded

two surveys of the relative value

placed on NASA STI products and services. NASA Centers and contractors

were queried. Since many products and

services are without charge to system

users, value-related feedback has to

be simulated. A method was developed

and tested to approximate this value;

users in the NASA Centers and contractor organizations were asked to

indicate the relative percentage value

for each product, consisting the overall list of products as I00%.

Page 2
Both Centers and contractors gave

heavier relative value to major services. If STAR and IAA and their indexes are considered as one (as the

published data base) compared to online

RECON including NALNET, then approximately two-thirds of total relative

value is allotted to major products.

Approximately one-third is given all

other products.

Highest preferences of Centers was for

RECON, while contractor higher preferences were almost equal for RECON

and STAR (20% and 19%). NASA STI users

both at Centers and contractors, appeared to be signaling, both statistically and in intent, that they are

going to depend more and more heavily

upon online services.

The continuing bibliographies, SCAN

(Selected Current Aerospace Notices,

twice a month) and UPDATE (current

awareness monthly) were low relative

valued products for both Centers and

contractors. UPDATE service (for

NASA Centers and selected contractors

for Hq., Langley, Ames, Lewis, and

Goddard) has been expanded since the

1982 survey and would probably receive

a higher rating if the survey were

conducted today.

For further information, call

John Wilson, (202) 755-3465.

COMPARATIVE VALUE OF NASA STI PRODUCTS

NASA

Centers

U_nweighted Weighted*

RECON Online Retrieval System 28 34

International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA) 6 5

Scientific and Technical Aerospace

Reports (STAR) 10 5

Continuing Bibliographies 2 I

Special Publications 7 8

NALNET (NASA Library Network) 14 16

Microfiche 13 15

Selected Current Aerospace

Notices (SCAN) 6 5

Scientific and Technical Aerospace

Reports (STAR) Index 4 2

International Aerospace Abstracts 3 2

(IAA) Index

NASA

Contractors

20

9

19

5

6

4

5

8

II

6

Limited Scientific and Technical

Aerospace Reports (LSTAR)

UPDATE (Monthly Current Awareness)

2 2 4

4 4 3

*Simple average for the centers and averages weighted according to number of

scientists and engineers.

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Space Administration

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THIRD CLASS BULK RATE

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Lasers in Aircraft Construction, NASA

TM-77131

Solar Activitj/ and the Biosphere, NASA

l_M-77168

Space Research Conducted in the Soviet

union in 1980, NASA TM-77178

Motion Sickness, Its Prevention and

Treatment, NASA TM-77181

Principles and Methods for Studying the

F(ydrological Cj/cle According to Aero---

space Information, NASA TM-77190

Aerospace Methods in Geographical

Research, NASA TM-77169

Sal),ut-7, NASA TM-77177 N83-20998

Turbulent Boundary, La_/er Around a Group_

of Obstacles in the Direction of Flow,

NASA TM-77016 N83-21264

Recent Publications

Space Physiology and Medicine, NASA

SP-447, GPO, $15.

Managing NASA in the Apollo Era: An

Admi nistrati ve Hist'or;/of the U.S.m

Space Program, 1958-i 969, NASA SP-4102,

GPO, _lO.O0

POSTMASTER: If Undeliverable (Section 158

Postal Manual) Do Not Return

Modeling_ Analysis, and Optimization

Issues for Large Space Structures,

NASA CP-2258, NTIS, 230 pages, $20.50.

NASA/MSFC FYo82 Atmospheric Processes

Research Review, NASA CP-2259, NTIS, 241

pages, SZO.SU.

Tire Modeling, NASA CP-2264, NTIS,

248 pages, $20.50.

NASA Patent Abstracts Bibliography:

Section 1 Abstracts, Section 2 Indexes,

January 1983, NASA SP-7039 (22).

Management, an annual bibliography with

indexes, March 1983, NASA SP-7500 (17).

NASA University Program Management

Information System, FY 1982, NASA

TM-85628.

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: The Bulletin is distributed to established users to keep :.

":them informed about NASA's scientific and technical i

: informationproductsand services.

i RECON operational problems may be directed to the ! RECON Coordinatorat the NASA Scientificand Technical

" Information Facility in Baltimore, Maryland (Telephone: :.

: (301)859-5300 ext. 301) or Washington,O.C. (Telephone: :

: (202)621-0301). Suggestions, material to be considered :

: for inclusion,and commentsmay be directedto Philip F. :.

" Eckert (NASA STI Facility (301)621-0140) or John :"

" Wilson, NASA Headquarters, Code NIT-42, Washington, :

: D.C. 20546 (Telephone:(202)755-3465). •

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III/ A STI-RECON Bulletin

Nato_al Aeror_utcs and

Space Administraton &

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

Tech Info News

June/July 1983

I

Answer to a Frequently Asked

Question

Question: Who can access

NASAIRECON ?

Answer: NASA/RECON can be

accessed by NASA and its

contractors, other Federal

agencies and their contractors, universities, and by

other domestic organizations

all who are assisting NASA

in its mission. User charges

are assessed. If you know of

an organization that qualifies

and needs access, advise

them to write:

NASA

NIT-42/Buford Smith

Washington, D.C. 20546

Climate Data Added to DND

Descriptions of about 40 climate data

bases have been added to the Directory

of Numerical Databases now accessible

online on NASA/RECON (as the Q File).

These are included in the NASA Climate

Data Catalog issued by the Information

Management Branch of Goddard Space

Flight Center. If you know of other

catalogs of numerical data bases, send

us a copy, or let us know about them,

and we'll enter them into the DND.

Standardized Cosati Cataloging

Explored

A week-long workshop beginning

June 20 was held at NTIS to propose

standards for cataloging report

literature for the Defense Technical

Information Center (DTIC), DOE

Technical Information Center, Oak

Ridge (TIC), NTIS, and NASA/STI

B ranch.

The cataloging at these agencies is

based on guidelines developed by

COSATI* in 1966 and revised by the

Committee on Information Hang-Ups in

1978.** Variations from agency to

agency in many instances are only

minor. DTIC, DOE, TIC, and NASA/STI

account for approximately 75_ of the

reports processed by Federal agencies.

Implementation of standard cataloging

guidelines could streamline processing

for the agencies and make it easier for

users to access citations.

Experience of the agencies in the last

twenty years of processing reports for

publication and entry into online

systems has developed COSATI into a

most efficient system, supplying the

data elements the user needs.

o_ittee on Scientific and Technical

Information, Federal Council for Science

and Technology.

Red Rowsome Citation

A plaque was presented at NASA

Headquarters to Fay Rowsome, widow of

Red Rowsome, who for over 20 years

was NASA's Chief of Publications. Many

of his former friends and associates

shared in the presentation, recognizing

his distinguished contributions to many

outstanding and significant aeronautical

and space publications.

**Guidelines for Descriptive Cataloging

of Reports. A Revision of COSATI

Standard for Descriptive Cataloging of

Government Scientific and Technical

Reports. March 1978 (CIH-78/01,

PB-277 951, AD-A050 900).

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_58-_J63

I 1 1 I I ! '! ! I! ! ! ! ! [ tI ; [-'f 1
NASA's Scientific and Technical

Information System

Condensed from a recent presentation to

NASA management by V. A. Wente,

Chief of the Scientific and Technical

Information Branch.

Those of us who have responsibility for

NASA's STI System think it is the

biggest, most agile, and useful

collection of high-tech information in

the world. The total system includes

the STI Branch in Washington, the STI

Facility at the Baltimore-Washington

International Airport ; the similar

activity run with NASA's support by

the AIAA in New York City; the online

systems serving libraries at each of the

NASA Centers and major contractor

sites; and arrangements with foreign

organizations such as the European

Space Agency for inputting reports of

member nations and quid pro quo

additions to the data base.

Looking at the NASA-wide technic.a]

information system, we see that each

Center's STI operations are organized

differently. In all NASA and JPL, about

200 civil-service personnel and 350

support-service contractors work in

technical information. They are

supported altogether by funds in excess

of $30-million annually.

At the heart of the system is the

collection, a huge body of scientific and

technical information collected from

worldwide sources. Itls big - currently

containing over 2.2 million individual

items. It's also dynamic, growing at the

rate of 140,000 items per year. We have

a number of quality-control and

filtering methods to keep this massive

data base from turning into a squirrel's

nest. Principal elements in this data

base are reports, journal papers,

presentations, and books. If it's been

put on paper or film, and if it's on

NASA's mission and given any

reasonable degree of release, we ought

to have it.

What we do with this tremendous

collection is what the system is all

about. ItVs fairly easy to microfilm the

documents and distribute them promptly

to Centers and contractors. There are

at least a dozen different ways we

assemble and parcel out specific slices

for individuals and groups of users. We

issue two abstract journals, on

alternating weeks, that announce and

abstract new material, one for reports,

and'one for journals, papers, and

books. Both of these journals, Scientific

and Technical Aerospace Reports

(STAR), and International Aerospace

Abstracts (IAA), carry indexes that

allow a user to search by subject,

author, originating institution, contract

number, or report number. They are

produced rapidly and permit about as

sophisticated search and retrieval as

can be managed by ink on paper!

But these journals, even with a set of

cumulated indexes, are really neither

fast enough nor comprehensive enough

to suit many NASA needs. Typically,

when a searcher wants to know what's

been done in a specific area, he wants

to know a little .more than simply what's

been done recently. There is a great

deal of serendipity in a really

satisfactory search: it's a kind of

random walk into unknown terrain. For

this, nothing to date has proved better

than our NASA/RECON, an online

bibliographic search system of almost

eerie responsiveness. NASA pioneered

this system in the 1960's and 1970's; in

the intervening period RECON has been

steadily growing in responsiveness,

speed, and precision. RECON currently

responds to over 12,000 separate

commands a day, from over 250

terminals and password holders.

One interesting part of the system is

NALNET, containing a listing of journals and books held by each NASA

Center library. This means that our

libraries need not maintain costly

duplicate collections for local use, but

can arrange for rapid interlibrary loans

of titles on demand. The books are

integrated for searching purposes with

the entire NASA data base.

There are countless by-product

advantages of our methods of accessing

the collection. To produce the big

abstract journals, for example, we need

standardization of citations, abstracts,

and indexing. To re-sort this material

into specialized products for special

audiences, all it takes is some relatively

uncomplicated software. It permits us to

generate, at low cost and without

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delay, continuing bibliographies in

aeronautical engineering, aerospace

medicine and biology, earth resources,

energy, large space structures

technology, and management. This

material, sorted from the main input

stream and presented for particular

readerships, is acquired at virtually

zero incremental cost and effort.

We also assist Headquarters offices in

devising or producing their own special

data bases and publications including

the RTOP annual (ongoing NASA RiD

projects), the yearly "green book" of

university contracts and grants, the

indexes of NASA management issuances,

and a new online index for NASA safety

reports. The Patent Bibliography is

issued for the Patent Counsel. An

online directory of numerical data bases

was established in March 1983.

In summary, the NASA system, was

begun over 20 years ago to serve a

variety of users with a variety of

information products, and continues to

fulfill this role in an every improving

manner.

Citations Listed Daily on

NASA/RECON

A developmental service is being tested

on NASA/RECON. Ten recent additions

to the NASA STI data base can be

viewed each day and full text ordered

for those of interest. These items are

directed toward NASA managers and are

selected for pertinence in relation to

NASAJs mission, management, and

foreign technology. A more selective

weekly listing is being considered.

Procedures for accessing are simple:

Enter: BEGIN

Enter: QUERY EXECUTE NEWPUBS(NAHQ)

Enter: DISPLAY 1

We are looking for a name for the

service, soliciting comments on its value

and suggestions on how it can be

improved. Call or write John Wilson.

Contracts and RTOP's Text

Searchable

Recently added to NASA/RECON is the

capability to text search NASA's

ongoing research project descriptions -

Research and Technology Objectives and

Plans (RTOP) - and contract entries for

the 1983 accession year and later on

NASA/RECON. Managers as well as R&D

staff will find it easier to find projects

underway related to theirs.

NASA/RECON Training

Plans for RECON training through

October 1982 are:

w

Advanced - Mirmeapolis Area

September 21-22, Wednesday & Thursday

Rosemount Inc.,

Eden Prairie, MN 55344

Hostess/Coordinator - Ms. Rosa Rummel

(612) 828-3716

Basic- Facility, (BWI Airport, MD)

October 17-18, Monday a Tuesday

These sessions have been coordinated

with the Annual DROLS Conference

scheduled for October 19-21.

Those interested in attending the

scheduled sessions are requested to

inform Philip F. Eckert, (301) 859-5300.

NASA STI Managers Meet

NASA STI managers met June 16 and 17

at Headquarters. Conclusions and action

requirements resulting from discussions

will be implemented at the Centers and

Headquarters. Included were:

o Headquarters STIB will serve as a

NASA-wide clearinghouse for statements of work for STI support

contracts.

o Centers will continue to issue annual

_ibliographies or lists of reports

where they serve a useful purpose.

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Center annual R_T reports should be

issued in the TM series and will be

included in the STI data base.

Centers will review report control

procedures for conformance with

comment requirements; a 300-copy

limit can be delegated to the Center.

Contractor Reports will continue to

be submitted directly to the STI

Facility. Modification to the procurement regulation will be sought

to add "after technical monitor

app royal."

Handling of publication series will be

reviewed by an intra-HASA group.

Efforts will be made to improve

acquisition of mission operations

reports for the data base.

The proposed NASA-wide Integrated

Library System (ILS) will proceed,

with bulk of costs anticipated for FY

1985.

Possibility of issuing a series "Best

of NASA Pathfinder" bibliographies

will be explored, to be made

available to new hires, contractors.

o Central procurement of full-text

journsis online will be explored.

These informal STI managers meetings

provide a forum for continuing

improvement of the NASA STI system.

NASA SCAN to Contain Abstracts

Commencing with SCAN 11 of May 1983,

SCAN will include abstracts. Major and

minor index terms have been dropped to

compensate partially for the abstract,

which requires more space. Semimonthly

issuances will be continued. Review of

the 186 topics is underway for possible

upgrading of the profiles.

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: for inclusion,and commentsmay be directed to Philip F.

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"_ional Aeronautics and

,.. ace Administration

Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

Bulletin

& Tech Info News

Aug/Sept 1983

RECON Access Charges Modified

RECON charges have been modified slightly to improve flexibility and simplify calculations.

There is no increase or decrease - just a different methodology. The new charges are

as follows:

RECON Enrollment Fee $60.00

Annual Maintenance Fee 60.00

Search Time 20.00

Telenet 7.00

Citation Printing 0.05

To initiate service

Prorated for first year

Connect Hour

Connect Hour

Each printed at NASA STI Facility v _"/iLI T

The annual maintenance fee is based on the calendar year, January 1 through December 31.

Users who require that the annual maintenance fee be based on the federal fiscal year

(or some other period of time) are requested to make special billing arrangements with

Ms. Mary Jo Minnick at the Facility (301-859-5300, Ext. 222).

_,_SA to Make AIAA a Source for

Information Data Base

NASA has arranged to neke bibliographic

data containing descriptions of more

than 1.2 million reports and articles

covering the world's aeronautical and

space literature since 1962 available

for leasing through the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

(AIAA) located in New York. AIAA and

_ASA have shared in design and production of the data base since 1963 when

_ASA began supporting AIAA's preparation of International Aerospace

_bstracts (IAA) and adding it to the

_ASA data base.

_egularly updated with about 70,000

Jocument citations each year, this com-

)uter-readable data base is the most

:omprehensive aerospace data base avail-

,ble directly to United States organiza-

:ions. It can be leased by domestic

anizations from AIAA for access only

vJchin the United States. There are an

_stimated 200,000 end-users whose work

:an benefit from the sophisticated

technology documented in this system.

The electronic data, to be known as the

Aerospace Database, is a combination of the

existing abstract periodicals, Scientific and

Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) and IAA.

It will be licensed to online"-vendors ant

leased to domestic corporations for use in

their in-house data base systems. With this

new arrangement, all domestic organizations

will have direct access to primary aerospace

information, thereby supplementing the access

already available for government and educational use through NASA's online system,

RECON, and through NASA-supported Industrial

Application Centers and State Technology

Centers.

AIAA will undertake a national marketing

effort, not only to reach information intermediaries, but to train scientists and engineers

to search the data base directly.

New Type (T) Command

A new TYPE Command, to be operational in

early October, will permit the dial-in user

to type up to 100 citations (including

abstracts). The user may order 10, 20,

..... 100 citations by these commands:

T 1/2/1-10

T I/2/I-20

T 1/2/2/1-I00
Whenthe TYPE Command is implemented,

the present software will be unable to

"break in" to stop the typing. Software

is being developed, however, to abort

the typing upon command. The default

(in event the range of items is omitted)

for the TYPE Command is one citation.

The use of TYPE Command on the UTS-400 is

anticipated.

ESDU Items in STAR

Documents issued by the Engineering Science "-_

Data Unit are now being included in the STI

data base and announced in STAR. ESDU Data

Items cover a wide range of carefully prepared

and vigorously monitored engineering guides,

standards, calculations, design criteria, and

reference materials.

NASA RECON/Training

NASA/RECON advanced training sessions

were held at the Charles Stark Draper

Laboratory, lnc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 24 and 25 for 32 information specialists representing 14

organizations. The chief of the Scientific and Technical Information

Branch and the staff at NASA Headquarters express their appreciation

and, gratitude to Ms. Cary Graham

and Ms. Betty Edwards for their top

performance as hostesses for the

training group. Mr. Van A. Wente

also relays NASA's appreciation to

Ms. Hope Coffman and other officials

of the Draper Laboratory.

Plans for RECON training through

October 1983 are:

Advanced - Minneapol is Area

September 21-22, Wednesday & Thursday

Rosemount Inc., Eden Prairie, MN 55344

Hostess/Coordinator - Ms. Rosa Rummel

(612) 828-3716

Basic - Facility (BWI Airport, I_)

r

October 17-18, Monday & Tuesday

These sessions have been coordinated

with the Annual DROLS Conference

scheduled for October 19-21.

Those interested in either or both of

the scheduled sessions are requested

to inform Mr. Philip F. Eckert or Ms.

Joanne purdy of their plans:

(301) 859-5300.

The N-70000 and X-70000 Series

The N-70000 and X-70000 series are the

third and fourth NASA series to be

described in the NASA/RECON Bulletins.

The N-70000 (with aliases ZN and NTOK)

series consists of older unclassified,

unlimited materials or materials for

administrative reasons considered unsuitable for announcement in an abstract journal, viz. STAR. As a

general rule, N-70000 candidates for

the data base are one and a half or more

years old. These documents are cataloged

and subject indexed on two levels - major

terms and minor terms. No abstracts are

entered into the data base. All titles

from 1964 to data are retrievable by "text"

search using mnemonics UTP or ATL.

The X-70000 (with aliases 7X and X7OK)

series consists of older unclassified,

limited materials or classified materials

considered unsuitable for announcement in

an abstract journal, viz. LSTAR. As with

the 7N series, documents in the 7X series

are cataloged and indexed on two levels of

thesaurus indexing. Similarly, no abstracts are entered into the data base.

All titles from 1964 to date are likewise

retrievable by "text" search using the _

mnemonics UTP or ATL.

The 7N and 7X series, containing 167,000

and 164,000 accessions, respectively, on

January 1, 1983, are extremely valuable

resources that complement the recently

acquired materials, which are used for

STAR and LSTAR input.

As a reminder, an "N" in an accession

number connotes unclassified, unlimited

or U 2. An "X" in an accession number signifies a limitation, such as unclassified,

limited (limited to certain users) or UL;

it could also mean that the document is

security-classified.

Paoe 2
Earlier descriptions of the IAA or AIOK

series and the STAR or NlOK_ies are

contained in NASA/RECON Bulletins 82/12

f'Dec. 1982) and 83/1 (Jan. 1983), respectively. New recipients of this publication ,lay obtain copies of the earlier

bulletins by writing to the Facility,

Attn: Ms. Joanne Purdy.

Second Computer for Facility

The Facility has recently installed an

additional computer - an IBM-4341-L01.

The new mainframe is required for a

new input processing system and will

be loosely coupled with the existing

IBM-4341-M02 and its peripherals.

Specific areas of improvement include:

o Online Duplicate Checking

o Interactive Machine Edit and

Validation of Online Data Entry

o Online Access to Authority Files

o Interactive Abstracting, Indexing,

and Cataloging

o Online Support for Processing

Machine-Readable Data

o Subject Switching (e.g., DTIC &

r DOE Term Conversion to NASA

, Subject Thesaurus Terms)

o Improved Production Throughput

for NALNET

o Capability for RECON to Search

In-Process Data

o 100% Compatible CPU Backup for

RECON

o Expanded Backup for NASA

Headquarters Computer Center

o Resources for NASA-Wide

Intergrated Library System

Deposit Accounts Available

Private concerns, universities, and

government agencies which want to count

on the continued availability of funds

intended for scientific & technical information purposes may wish to open a

NASA/RECON Deposit Account at the

Facility. Any amount may be used in

such accounts to provide for future online information service needs. Funds

deposited now will continue to be available when needed, regardless of the

dvent of a new fiscal year. For

Jrther information, contact Ms. Mary Jo

Minnick at the Facility: (301) 859-5300,

ext. 222.

New FAA Paper on Lightning

A new conference publication has just

been released by the FAA, entitled

International Aerospace and Ground Conference

on Lightning and Static Electricity.

The 83 related papers were published as

report number DOT/FAA/CT-83/Z5 in Jure B3.

The publication is currently undergoing

processing at the Facility as an analytic

and will be announced in STAR 19 on October 8, 1983. It will not be microfiched

and will not be availab-Tefor sale from

NTIS. It is available for $25.00 payable

to IALC-8, from M. Glynn, FAA Technical

Center, ACT-340, Atlantic City

Airport, NJ 08405.

S&T Publications NMI Issued

A NASA Management Instruction, NMI

2220.13B - Control of the Production

and Distribution of Scientific and

Technical Publications - has been

issued that defines the control

system for scientific and technical

publications, one of three control

systems addressed in the umbrella

NMI issued last year, NMI 2214.1 -

Control of the Production and Distribution of NASA Publications and

Audiovisual Products. The two

NMI's were issued in response to

a call for cost efficiency in

government publications practices.

Centers have reviewed their own

control systems to determine if they

are up to date. When Headquarters

has completed its review, authority for

control of the various formal series

reports will be redelegated as appropriate. However, control of

Special Publications, because of the

cost and the effort involved in the

production, will be retained by the

Director of the Logistics Management

and Information Programs Division.

The publications covered by the NMI's

include Special Publications, Reference Publications, Conference Publications, Technical Memorandums,

Technical Papers, and Contractor Reports.

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User's Guide for the Solar Backscattered Ultraviolet {SBUVI and

the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

{TOMS} RUT-S and RUT-T Data Sets:

Oct. 31, 1978 to Nov. 1, 19_-(_--,

N83-28828 Iss 17 Cat 47 NASA-RP-1112

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Radiometer Requirements for EarthObservation Systems Usin 9 Large Space

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44 pages, NTIS, $8.50

Rolling-Element Bearings,

N83-27214 Iss 16 Cat 37 NASA-RP-1105

61 pages, NTIS, $10.00

A NASA High-Power Space-Based Laser

Research and Applications Program.

N83-27200 Iss 16 Cat 36 NASA-SP-464

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N83-26853 Iss 16 Cat 15 NASA-CP-2269-Pt-1

596 pages, NTIS, $41.50

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N83-26879 Iss 16 Cat 15 NASA-CP-2269-Pt-2

469 pages, NTIS, $34.00

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20 pages, NTIS, $7.00

POSTMASTER: If Undeliverable (Section 158

Postal Manual) Do Not Return

The 17th Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium,

N83-248811ss 14 Cat 39 NASA-CP-2273

390 pages, NTIS, $29.50

Aviation Gasolines and Future Alternatives,

N83-22442 Iss 12 Cat 28 NASA-CP-2267

164 pages, NTIS, $16.00

Small Transport Aircraft Technology,

N83-209311ss 11 Cat 05 NASA-SP-460

118 pages_ GPO, $5.00

Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization Issues

for Large Space Structures,

N83-18819 Iss 09 Cat 15 NASA-CP-2258

222 pages, NTIS, $19.00

Joint University Program for Air Transportation Research, 1980,

N83-18637 Iss 09 Cat 01NASA-CP-2176

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National Aeronautics and

Scientific SpaceAdministrat,on and Technical & Tech Info News

Information Branch

October 1983

Trial Period for Indexed Searches

On a three month trial basis, the NASA

STI Facility will provide indexes for

RECON searches when requested by

users. This experiment will run from

November I, 1983, through January 31,

1984, and use existing capabilities.

NASA users will not be charged for the

service. Non-NASA users will be

charged $0.05 per citation indexed.

Indexing will be available for search

results of 100 or more citations made

on the primary data base (1968 to

date).

Search results will be held until the

index is ready, so that they can be

bound and mailed together. If search

results are especially bulky, the index can, of course, be bound separately.

The Facility will keep a record of the

users' names and addresses who request

indexes during the trial period so

that followup analysis may be done.

Attention Telenet Users

On September 26, 1983, RECON began

using an enhanced interface to the

Telenet network. This is being done

in an effort to curtail escalating

Telenet costs while accommodating more

users at the same time.

The new interface requires a slightly

different signon procedure. You should

have already received new instructions from the Facility. If not, or

should you have any questions concerning the Telenet system, please feel

free to call the RECON Coordinator

at (301) 621-0301.

make any required software modifications and to continue or discontinue

offering this service.

If you are interested in having an index prepared for a search, contact

Philip F. Eckert (202) 621-0140 before the search is run.

_Pioneer Venus

Special Publication

Pioneer Venus by Richard O. Fimmel,

Lawrence CoITn, and Eric Burgess,

proviaes a comprehensive view of a

planet and a pioneering mission. In

December 1978, instrumented unmanned

spacecraft reached Venus and began

sending to Earth a treasure-trove of

data about our near neighbor. The

book, published by Ames and the

STI Branch, narrates the history of

the NASA-Ames program and describes

in detail the spacecraft used and the

scientific experiments performed. In

addition, it discusses the Soviet

Venera program that brought spacecraft to Venus at the same time our

craft arrived.

The text is technical in nature. Extensive bibliography and explanatory

appendixes on Venus and the mission

team are included. It is liberally

illustrated with photographs and diagrams.

Copies of NASA SP-461 (N83-30340) may

be obtained for $11.00 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

20402.

Results of the trial will be used by

NASA to evaluate whether or not to 25Th Ann_versaf y

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LSTAR Series

The LSTAR Series (the fifth to be described in the STI-RECON Bulletins)

has several aliases - XIOK, X-IO,OO0,

and CSTAR.

The LSTAR is an acronym for Limited

STAR. LSTAR announces current unc-Ta-_sified reports prepared by NASA

and its contractors and grantees that

are subject to availability limita-.

tions, and security-classified reports

of NASA and NASA-supported research.

Security-classified reports announced

in LSTAR bear either CONFIDENTIAL or

SECRET classifications, which is indicated as part of the citation. While

the reports themselves may be classified, LSTAR contains no classified

information.

The Series was originally called

CSTAR, meaning Classified STAR. Its

accession populTtion was qu'u_t'eheavy

in the middle and late sixties and in

1970 because it was comprised mostly

of unclassified, limited distribution

(ULTand security-classifled reports

from DoD and from foreign sources.

Monthly abstract journals for this

series were classified for the years

1962 through 1971.

In 1974, the first volume of LSTAR was

published as an unclassified abstract

journal. It consisted of 767 limited

distribution and security classified

reports that were processed into the

data base during the last few months

of 1972 and all of 1973. With the

exception of the accession year of

1976, all reports accessioned into the

LSTAR data base have averaged about

300 per year. The 1892reports contained in 1976 subset were accessioned

to produce ESA SP-IO06, Index of ELD____O0

Publications. (ESA = European Space

Agency; ELDO = European Lancher Development Organization.)

From 1974 through 1982, the LSTAR abstract journal was published on a

quarterly basis. In 1983, the journal

was temporarily suspended. LSTAR accessions, as a result of the suspension, are added monthly to the NASA

data base instead of quarterly. LSTAR

accessions are retrievable on RECON

through major and minor level indexing. The abstract family is textsearchable from 1975 to date using the

mnemonics TX and AX; the title family

is also text-searchable, but from 1962

to date using the mnemonics ATL and

UTP.

The total population of LSTAR accessions on January 1, 1983 was

82,500 (35,000 in the Primary Data

Base and 47,000 in the Alternate

Data Base).

New Remote Sensing

Paper

A transcription of the full Remote

Sensing IssOes Panel Discussion from

the 4th Geosat Workshop, "Remote

Sensing Frontiers" held in Flagstaff,

Arizona in June 1983, is now available from The Geosat Committee.

This document contains important information on the current issue of

commercializing the Landsat program as

well as on data distribution, highrisk civil R&D, and the "Open Skies"

policy.

Please contact The Geosat Committee,

153 Kearny, Suite 209, San Francisco,

CA 94108 (415) 981-6265, for information on how to order.

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The quick and cost effective way to

expand terms, authors, reports, etc.

is to add "1"1" to the end of the

term being expanded. This will display three terms: one before and one

after the desired term as shown below:

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NASA Special Publications, Reference Publications,

and Conference Publications

How are These

Publications Related?

In 1977 NASA modified the "Special

Publications" family by dividing it

into three parts. Today there are

NASA Special Publications (SP's),

NASA Reference Publications (RP's),

and NASA Conference Publ ,cations

(CP's). Special Publications coverage includes scientific summaries of

mission results, scientific photography, atlases, and histories and

chronologies.

Reference Publications coverage includes technical handbooks and

manuals, critical tables, monographs,

_nd scientific and technical textbooks.

Conference Publications coverage includes symposia, workshops, seminars,

and other professional meetings

sponsored by NASA.

As a general rule, SP's and RP's

are of special Quality and are considered to have especially long-term

usefulness, while CP's present new

information.

New Catalog Available

The long-awaited Records of Achievement - NASA Special Publications 'ms

f--Tnally been published and distributed. Its report number is NASA

SP-470, and it is free from both the

Facility and NTIS.

The new publication contains a brief

description of NASA's Special Publications, Conference Publications,

Reference Publications and a short

narrative of some of NASA's achievements during its twenty-five years of

existence. The citations are arranged in ascending order by class (SP,

RP, and CP). In addition, publications are indexed under NASA's ten

broad categories and by specific

category within each broad category.

The accession years for the publication span the period 1962 through

July 1983.

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Contributors to this issue of the Bulletin include: R. Buchan, P. Eckert, M. Moriarty,

Y. Turner, J. Wilson.

POSTMASTER: If Undeliverable (Section 158

Poual Manual) Do Nm Return

NASA STI DATA BASE

2.3 M RECORDS

To the left you see a

representationof the

current NASA ST• Database.

Included are technical

reports, published literature, books, and

other materials. All

together, current holdings are over the 2

million document mark.

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: distributed to established users to keep i

-" them informed about NASA's scientific and .

technical information products and ser- :

: vices.

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: P.O. Box8757

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inclusion, and comments may be directed

: to Yvonne Turner at the above address or :

telephone NASA Headquarters, (301)621-0264, Code or John Wilson, NIT-42, i"

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Scientific and Technical

Information Branch

& Tech lnfo News

November 1983

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Online Searching Courses to be Developed

There is a gre_,ir, g realiz_.tior, tk, at

recent college 5r_.l;.._es in scientific and er, gir, eerir, g oi_c'.'pRi_;es do

not have the _×p._ri_..ce, skill, s, a_d

moti__tion _._:es_.ary to *___e full edgar, rage of e_.ist':rc_ __,t:..--._ted syste_.s

w_-.,ich provide (_;abi;it_es fo r sea,-cLi_:g and retria_;_-,_ scientific e,'d

"__cht,ical ir, for_ =tion.

S)uthern University (Sb), Baton Rouge,

LA, is being fur, Jed by _i#,SA to develop

and e_aluete a set of t_ansportable,

coll_ge-'.evel cr, ur__.,-'s to. educate

,_science and er_gira=rir, g s*uJents in

_._,he effective use of these systems,

<'Vand, in particular, in the use of the

NASA F,'E..?O,_system.. Courses tc be

developed include a full sar.,ester

course, full quarter course, a sixweek workshop, and a two or three

day workshop.

These courses will include access via

computer terminal to NASA/RECON online

bibliographical system and at least

one other online system building

search strategies based or analysis

c T tKe data bas_s available and knowledge of tF,e vocab._laries.

Graduates from colleges and universiZies spor_soring such cc.urses will

_.a,:, gained the experience, skills,

a,,d ;,_ti_ati._n r.ecessary for the

_f_e, tive use of autor,,ated infor-

_<t-'._,_ su;.port systems. Hence,

tF, ey would be better prepared to work

in ._&D. St,ch prior e>,perle,,ce should

ka,e ar, early effect on the quality

of research conducted by incoming

emplcj, ees into the federal sector and

their co,_tractors, and should reduce

required trair, i_,g, thus increased

productivity of the R&D of Federal

programs can be expected.

The prcject will take two years to

complete. It will then be followed

by another two or three years of introducing the curricula developed

into university and college undergraduate science and engineering

programs nationwide.

SU will be assisted by Southwestern

Louisiana University. NASA's Office

of Equal Opportunity and the

Scientific and Technical Information

Branch will share in fur,din 9 the

project.

The) will also include instruction in

the published rescurces that provide

access to the NASA scientific ar,d

technical ihfon..ation data base, as

well as these of other federal and

commercial agencies, including

Departments of Defense and Energy,

National Technical ir,formation Service, Libraries of Medicine and

griculture, Lockhee_ Information

ervice, and Bibliographic Retrieval

ervices. Complete curricula support

materials will be prepared for instructors and students.

RECONTraining

NASA/RECON Training has been tentatively scheduled as follows:

February 7 -8, 1984 --.Basic trai_ling

at the Facility, BWI Airport, MD.

March 13 - 14, 1984 -- Advanced

Training at the Facility, BWI

Airport, MD.

For further information, contact

Philip F. Eckert, (202) 621-0140.

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The W and K Series

Described

The W and K Series are the sixth and

seventh NASA accession series described i& the RECON bulletins,

The W70K Series was implemented in

1971 for an annual publication entitled, NASA Research and Technology

Objectives and Plans (RTOP). RTOP is

an annual guide to NASA-sponsored research in progress. It is a summary,

with indexes, of all _esearch and

Technology Objectives erd Plans subr_itted by NASA Centers 4o the NASA

HEaaquarters Office of Aeronautics

er,d Space Technology for management

review. The items are rot documents.

The items are cataloged, indexed (on

one level), and are text-searchable

(titles ar.d abstracts) from 1982 to

date. As of July 1983, the total

historical RTOP population was 9,611.

All of these are available on RECON.

H_wever, there are only 678 active

RTOP items.

The K]OK Series was implemented in

1972 and is currently called the R&D

Contract Search File. Containing

information about NASA R&D Contracts,

Grants, and Orders, the file i_ available to all RECON users and is a

supplement to the W70K Series. Again,

the items are not documents.

The items are cataloged and indexed

or, one level and the titles are textsearchable from 82KI0134 and later.

The KIOK Series document population

in July 1983 was 17,600.

it is useful to search these series

if you are interested in new trends

or future developments. Although

the citations are not for documents,

they can identify for you corporate

sources and project leaders doing

new work i_ a given field.

User Group to be Formed

Recent expansion in access to NASA/

RECON has resulted in different types

of organizations coming onto the

system. Also, planned development of

EASY/RECON could be assisted by advice

from users.

To gather these ideas, a RECON User

Group is being formed. The first

meeting of the Group is planned

for February or March 1984. It is anticipated that 6 to 10 members of the

group would serve as a liaison committee to work with the NASA Scientific

and Technical Information Branch

(STIB) tc focus and channel suggestions and problems.

We welcome your ideas or, hcw such

a group should be organized or how

it should function. Write or call

John Wilson (202-755-3456 or ITS

755-3465) _t NASA STIB.

Price of Information

Annually, the Librarx Journal surveys

A_rican periodical subscription

prices. This year's analysis covers

3,671 titles. The average subscription price for an American title

is $50.23. The top five average

subscription categories are all in

the sciences:

Average Number of

Category Price Titles

Chemistry and

Physics $207.94 167

Medicine 112.72 177

I_athematics 97.26 228

Engineering 73.18 265

Zoology 70.74 93

Under Science and Technology Serial Services (the group where" STAR would be

placed), the average price was $270.94

covering 281 titles. A complete tally

of all periodicals and serial services

can be found in the September i, 1983

issue of Library Journal, pages 1659

through 1662.

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What's a Name? (or an Acronym?) in

Do you ever feel like you're living S TXIHIRIS "_/_'_

in the age of acronyms? So often in

our reading or as we receive requests

to research a topic, part of all of a

concept is expressed in acronyms.

Some become familiar, like NASA, but

others elude our reference guides or

our own ingenuity.

RECON to the rescue. By conducting a

text search of all titles and the

text, then combining sets, you can

usually find a translation of the

acronym and a description of the project or concept.

For instar,ce, suppose you come across

"QCGAT" -- what do you do?

S ATL/QCGAT

1 19 19 ATL/QCGAT

S TX/QCGAT

2 13 20 TX/QCGAT

C I+2

3 23 39 I+2

D3

In the very first citation displayed,

you find _uiet _lean General Aviation

Turbofan in the abstract.

What about HIRIS? Follow the same

process and your display should look

like the following:

S ATL/HIRIS

4 5 5 ATL/HIRIS

5 9 13 TX/HIRIS

C 4+5

6 9 18 _+5

D6

And so your find that HIRIS is HighResolution _nterferometer Spect-rometer.

Try or:_ more. What does IFFC stand

for?

S ATL/IFFC

7 4 4 ATL/IFFC

S TX/IFFC

8 17 44 TX/IFFC

C 7+8

9 18 48 7+8

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The acronym stands fqr I_ntegrated

_FIight/_Fire _Control.

You'll find RECON a helpful tool in

deciphering acFonyms. Try this search

technique on the ones your come

across, or try it on some of ours,

like: ATEGG, ITOS, VIFF, EADI.

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Have

Display

Will Travel

Above you see the NASA STI Branch

folding display, which is about six

and a half feet high and eight and a

half feet long. It has been displayed

at the Annual Experimental Aircraft

Contributors to this issue of the

Bulletin include: R. Buchan,

P. Eckert, E. Fleek, Y. Turner,

and J. Wilson.

Association (EAA) Convention and

Sport Aviation Exhibition (EAA

Fly-ln) in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and the

American Society of Information

Specialists (ASIS) Conference in

Washington, D.C.

Included on the display are pictures

depicting projects toward future

flight, lunar exploration, earth

resources, space operations, astrophysics, and life sciences, along with

a brief announcement of the NASA STI

program.

Any NASA Center can borrow the display for exhibition. If you are

interested, contact Philip F. Eckert

(202) 621-0140 to make arrangements.

RECON Bulletin and STI hie ws ,._distributed to established users to keep them infom-.,eCabo,Jt NASA's scientificand technical informationprod J=*.sand services.

RECON operationa! problems may be direc_iK:l to the

RECON Coordir,atorat:

NASA ST! Facility

P.O. Box 8757

B.W.I. Airport, Md. 21240

Suggestions, material to be coms;Jered for inclusion, and

comments may be directed to Yvonne Turner at the above

address or telephone (301)621-O264, or John Wilson.

NASA Headquarters, Code NIT-42, Washington, D.C.

20546, (202)755-3465.

Detach ',abe! with instnJctions for address or distribution

change and mail to: All'N: User Sewices Division,STIF.