Abstract
IN my section of the account published in Nature of August 21 of the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference, I stated that British Abstracts were of the ‘indicative' that is, a briefer type ; other abstracts were of the ‘informative', that is, a longer type. That is how those various services describe the abstracts they publish. Fear has been expressed lest those unfamiliar with British Abstracts or with the use of these words, ‘indicative' and ‘informative', in this connexion may infer that British Abstracts differ radically from all the others, and may be even merely extended titles. This, of course, is not so.
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CHADWICK, D. British Abstracts. Nature 162, 578 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162578b0
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