Geoscience Information - Harvey, A. P.

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Sommaire:
Review of geological documentation.- State-of-the-art in geoscience information-USA.- Canada: current activities and issues in geological documentation.- Geological documentation in the Federal Republic of Germany.- Geological information in France.- State-of-the-art of geological documentation in the United Kingdom.- The current Australasian earth sciences information scene.- Geoscience documentation in India.- History of geoscience information in India.- Geological documentation in Brazil.- International aspects of geological documentation.- Aspects of geological documentation.- Publication practices used by professional societies.- Indexing and abstracting: degrees of freedom.- The role of the UNISIST/ICSU-AB Reference Manual in data base processing.- Computer-assisted editing of bibliographic information.- Geological data management.- Online information retrieval - present status and future implications (Abstract only).- Application of information handling to applied geology.- What information is available for the applied geologist.- International resource data - international resource analyses.- International data exchange for geothermal energy power production.- Data banking in IEA coal research.- International access to the Petroleum Abstracts Information System.- An advanced hydrogeological data storage and retrieval system in use in New South Wales.- Documentation in specialized areas.- Applications, availability and acquisition of earth satellite imagery for geology.- Bibliographical control of geological maps.- The link between data and documentation.- Earth science and the foreign language problem.- User viewpoints.- Geology presented in collections of papers from the published literature.- Geoscience information sources and services from the user's viewpoint.- Information transfer to the geoscientist through the International Union of Geological Sciences.- Status of information education for geoscientists in the United States and Canada.- Some practical approaches to geoscience information problems of developing countries.