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IN a paper "Streamlining Production and Distribution of Current Periodical Articles" (Special Libraries, 34, No. 6, July–August 1943), Zeliaette Troy, librarian of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, after directing attention to the difficulties which the present system of publication offers to individuals as well as to libraries, and to the drawbacks of interlibrary loans, film, copies and photostat copies, suggests a scheme for minimizing the mechanics of publication and distribution. Under this scheme, an author would complete his article and send it to the usual editors, by whom, on approval, it would be sent to a central printing office. There the manuscript and abstract would be stamped with the date of receipt, and the authorizing organization indicated. When the article and abstract are in printable form, they would receive a common chronological number, followed by a classification number, after which the cost accountant would put a price on the article and on the abstract in accordance with the number of copies to be printed, and both items would go to the printing establishment.
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An Idealist View of Special Publications. Nature 153, 134 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153134b0
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