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crl-12093	Shank, Russell	Diffusion of Abstracting and Indexing Services for Government-Sponsored Research (Book Review)	1968	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1354	58	48	Without a doubt Dr. Klempner's findings support his hypothe- ses that the government's abstracting serv- ices are not being adequately utilized for the diffusion of results of government- sponsored research; that industries and in- stitutions having no government contracts generally do not receive, and frequently are unfamiliar with these abstracting and indexing services; and that there is a high degree of correlation between the extent of receipt and use of these services within certain regions and industries and the de- gree of innovation and economic expan- sion within these regions and industries. The important underlying assumptions in Dr. Klempner's research are that the uti- lization of technical information can be ac- celerated and intensified through the pur- poseful exploitation of national documen- tation center abstracting and indexing serv- ices, and that if imaginatively distrib- uted and used, the services can, in effect, act as social instruments capable of pro- Book Reviews / 519 moting national technological, economic and social goals.	cache/crl-12093.pdf	txt/crl-12093.txt