Scientific and Technological Scholarly Communication and Its User Needs : An Interim Summery Report

Information and telecommunication technology are causing revolutionary changes in society and its institutions. It is especially more so in the field of science and technology (S＆T). Extraordinary advances in microelectronics have fueled this information revolution, and S＆T scholarly communication are changing rapidly and dramatically because of it as are the needs of science and technology information users. To seek pertinent scientific and technical information (STI) is a complex matter in this electronic digitalized age of information environment. Before we meet information needs of scientists and engineers effectively, we must know the Purpose for their seeking the information, the type of information they sought, and what we have been providing to satisfy their needs.(omitted)