Integrated and single information system in the Soviet Union

Abstract

The new, and single system of scientific and technical information of the Soviet Union is being built up on the various branch systemse in scientific and technical information. The scientific and technical world literature will continue to be processed by the All-Union Scientific and Technical Information Institute (VINITI), the patent specifications by the Information Institute of the Invention and Discovery Committee of the Council of Ministers, and the standards and technical specifications by the Information Institute of the Ministerial Council'a Committee of Standards, Measures and Measuring Instruments.
An All-Union Scientific and Tecnhical Information Centre is now being set up for registering the research work accomplished, and to be effected in the Soriet Union. The sphere of activity of the national, branch and regional scientific and technical information centres and other bodies alike will be considerably incraased, and their methodical guidance will be the task of the Scientific and Technical State Committee of the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers.
The system of selective information services which renders informations without waiting for the actual demands, will increase the responsibility of information centres to provide in time full and complete data. Some of the further important measures of this significant decree include for example the establishing of reference holdings through the merger of the stocks of scientific and technical libraries and those of the scientific and technical information institutes concerned, - the setting-up of a new type of state service for providing standard-like information data about the physical and chemical properties of materials and their main physical coefficients, - the publishing of catalogues on products manufactured, of preparing surveys on technical and economic indices of the activity in enterprises, - to be active in prompting an operative information through films, - and to implement the material and technical base (machines, appliances etc.) of information centres. All these will make it possible for the Soviet Union to realise as soon as possible the directives of V. I. Lenin about the necessity to integrate information work.