Abstract :
Starting with this issue, IEEE Transactions on Audio and Electroacoustics is participating in an experimental trial run of publication of catalog card information as an aid to information retrieval. These cards have been prepared for each full-length contributed paper that appears in this issue of the Transactions, and are printed on separate pages at the back of the journal. Note that these cards are printed on one side of the page only, so that they can be readily clipped out and pasted to a standard 3.5 x 5.0 -inch file card. Each catalog card contains a complete reference to the paper in the form of title, author´s name, abstract, and index terms. Space is left for an accession number, which the reader may add, if desired, to adapt the card to his own retrieval system. Space is also left for other index terms that the reader may prefer to use for indexing in his own retrieval system. The information-retrieval catalog cards printed at the back of this issue are part of a series of trial runs in which several IEEE Group Transactions are participating. These trial runs are being conducted with the assistance of the Information Retrieval Committee of the IEEE, as one of the first steps in a long-range program to improve information dissemination and utilization for IEEE members. This long-range program includes such things as mechanized indexing, demand reproduction of papers, and selective dissemination of published material or announcements of its availability; in short, all aspects of organizing, storing, and retrieving the technical literature in the fields of interest to IEEE.
