Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems

Contents: History and Historiography of Science Information Systems Overview of the History of Science Information Systems / Michael Buckland Funding a Revolution /Thomas P. Hughes Fax to Facts: Cold Fusion and the History of Science Information / Bruce V. Lewenstein Shaping Biomedicine as an Information Science / Timothy Lenoir Secret Scientific Communities: Classification and Scientific Communication in the DOE and DoD / Robert W. Seidel Science and Scientific Information Systems The Role of the Scientific Paper in Science Information Systems / Bernd Frohmann The Game of the Name: Nomenclatural Instability in the History of Botanical Informatics / Geoffrey C. Bowker Common Names: Cooperative Access to Databased Natural History Information / Bernadette G. Callery The Evolution of the Secondary Literature in Chemistry / Helen Schofield The History of Managing Technical Information at DuPont / Florence H. Kvalnes Building Information Retrieval Systems for Science Development of an Information Retrieval System Based on Superimposed Coding / James M. Cretsos The Evolution of Citation Indexing—From Computer Printout to the Web of Science / Jacqueline Trolley and Jill O’Neill The Creation of the Science Citation Index / Paul Wouters Information Retrieval in Science: The Professional Aspects Wilhelm Ostwald, the “Brücke” (Bridge), and Connections to Other Bibliographic Activities at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century / Thomas Hapke Ralph Shaw and the Rapid Selector / Jana Varlejs The Information Wars: Two Cultures and the Conflict in Information Retrieval, 1945–1999 / Mark D. Bowles Information Retrieval in Science: The Technical Aspects Examples of Early Nonconventional Technical Information Systems / Madeline M. Henderson Microfilm Technology and Information Systems / Susan A. Cady Mechanical Indexing: A Personal Remembrance / Herbert Ohlman Science and Information: Some National Perspectives Soviet Scientific and Technical Information System: Its Principles, Development, Accomplishments, and Defects / Ruggero Giliarevskii The Soviet Overseas Information Empire and the Implications of Its Disintegration /Pamela Spence Richards Restoration of Japanese Academic Libraries and Development of Library and Information Science: The Contributions of Shigenori Baba / Takashi Satoh History Reviewed and Revisited History Review: The Development of Information Science in the United States / Robert M. Hayes On the Shoulders of Giants / Eugene Garfield Pioneers’ Reminiscences