First European congress on documentation systems and networks.

Furthermore, the ICSU-AB study of the "Input Plan", the basis of a breakdown at the highest processing level of information bases, is one of the main preoccupations of the CNRS for the years to come. [...] The set of the parts of the documentary file thus defined constitutes the body of bulletins diffused, independently of the documentary files of each unit. [...] In I965, with the support and encouragement of the newly formed Office for Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the Department of Education and Science, preliminary studies began with the aim of determining the feasibility of producing Science Abstracts by computer techniques. [...] With the creation of a fully integrated computer based operation, the title of the organisation and of the services it provides became INSPEC, the acronym standing for Information Services in Physics, Electrotechnology, Computers and Control. [...] Thus the scale of charges made for any of the services provided reflect the true cost of the operation without the presence of any subsidy.