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THIS Conference is important historically, because it marks the beginning of a second stage in the progress of documentation. In the past, our main endeavour has been directed to bring about the collaboration of documentary agencies in the single task of making accessible the scattered records of thought and achievement, especially in science and technology, until to-day more decimally classified references are produced than different papers abstracted. But, as the result of statistical investigations, made in the main by the British National Section, we have come to see that this alone will not suffice to produce a tolerably complete index to the records of human endeavour. Half the records are overlooked by the existing abstracting arid indexing agencies. We need a means of covering all this literature. The means has been discovered. Its promotion has commenced, and this begins a second stage in our activities.
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BRADFORD, S. COMPLETE DOCUMENTATION*. Nature 159, 105–106 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159105a0
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