supply those documents not available to the researchers.
will be limited to the NAEG and its contractors.
This service
When NAEG researchers
notify the Information Center of their interests and research projects,
they are automatically alerted to incoming documents that match their
needs.
Another new approach in use is to send NAEG researchers
bimonthly or quarterly individualized updated searches from the
computerized information file.
For these procedures to be effective,
feedback on their usefulness is necessary in each case in order to
select subsequent specific applicable information.
Selecting and computerizing information within the scope of the NAEG
project from the classified literature is a second aspect of the
project.
This classified literature reposes in the vault of the
Technical Information Center in Oak Ridge.
From the classified
literature, bibliographic and descriptive information has been
selected, cleared, and entered into the computerized file.
This
activity is a logical extension of a continuing project to locate and
extract pertinent information from early literature.
The information
extracted from the classified documents is, however, necessarily
scant.
Some of the data contained within a document can be described
by subject categories and key words, which have been cleared by a
security officer, i.e., the radionuclide, the type of study, the
methods, and the nonsensitive results will be noted.
The collaboration of the NAEG Information Center with the Comparative
Animal Research Laboratory (CARL) in Oak Ridge is a recent project.
A handbook of tabular data extracted by the CARL scientific staff on
pluntonium in mammals will be published soon by CARL.
sent to interested NAEG contractors.
It will be
The CARL data were designed to
merge with the NAEG Information Center computerized information file
and will be available for specific searches fitting NAEG needs.
Since the NAEIC began in January of 1972, the scope of the project
has grown as needs and interests of the NAEG have expanded.
The
initial interest and continuing primary concern are plutonium in the
environment, particularly that of the Nevada Test Site.
Table l
relates some of the scope changes to the publication dates of the
bibliographies.
Ecology of the Nevada Test Site was added before the
first publication in September, 1972.
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Uranium was added in time to