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IN a written answer to a question regarding reports on German industrial and scientific progress on December 5, the President of the Board of Trade stated that 1,390 such reports have been published to date, of 2 by British teams, 278 by American teams and 540 by combined teams, and it is expected that the total would approach 2,500. In addition to placing the reports on sale at H.M. Stationery Office, free distributions of all reports published are made to universities, the principal public libraries and chambers of commerce. Trade and research associations and learned professional institutions also receive a token free distribution of the reports of direct interest to them. Arrangements have been made with the Stationery Office to produce both a classified list of the reports and a subject index, and an Information Bureau and Reference Library has also been created at the secretariat of the British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, which body is now administered by the Board of Trade. This Reference Library contains not only all the finished reports but also much of the raw material on which they were based. The -work is closely co-ordinated with the Documents Unit of the Board of Trade, which is the central repository for the large quantity of original German documents collected in the British and allied investigations. The Unit has facilities for translating and abstracting and for supplying copies of the abstracts or of the original documents to any interested party, and this Information Service, with a nucleus technical staff and access both to the reports and to the original German documents, should be of great assistance to firms with limited research facilities. Publicity is being given to this service and facilities by an exhibition opened at the Board of Trade at Millbank, London, on December 10; the exhibition will eventually be shown in the most important provincial industrial centres of Britain.
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Reports on German Industrial and Scientific Progress. Nature 158, 867–868 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158867e0
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