British Information Services

Through a cooperative arrangement, the Office of Technical Services is regularly informed of new British government reports in various technological fields. To acquaint readers with the wide variety of subjects covered, a free sample list of reports available from British Information Services will be furnished by the Office of Technical Services on request. 

Scientific Information. Only a few offices are prepared to provide information concerning scientific activity. When unable to answer a request, the usual procedure in the information office is to refer it to a suitable home ministry. The British Information Services and those of the commonwealths are well qualified to supply information bearing on research. The Pakistan Association for the Advancement of Science offers a good select bibliography concerning scientific progress there. Several countries (Sweden, Union of South Africa, etc.) have stationed in the United States science attaches whose function is to channel notice of American scientific advances to their countries. The technical adviser to the Swedish Embassy can advise United States inquirers about scientific matters in Sweden, and the French National Center for Scientific Research (C.N R.S.) maintains a New York office which supplies information on French science. Offices possessing library or reference files occasionally contribute scientific data from those sources. 

United Nations, New York, N. Y. British Information Service... 

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Industry. Classified List No. 18. Reports Published up to March 31, 1948, Superseding all Previous Lists, 1948. Classified List No. 19. Reports Published April 1-Aug. 31, 1948. Classified List No. 20, Reports Published Sept. 1, 1948-Oct. 31, 1949. Available from British Information Services, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y. 

Brines, Russell. 1944. Urail They Eat Stones, J. B. Lippincott British Information Services. 1945. Statements relating to the atomic bomb. Rev, Mod, Phys, 17 472,... 

In the UK, chicken is the number one meat for the tenth consecutive year and in 1998 accounted for 38.4% of the primary meat market, its nearest competitor being beef at 24.2%. The total retail chicken market was valued at 1.65bn in 1998, an increase of 2.8% over 1997 (British Chicken Information Service 1999). 

Chicken is no longer a product that is simply produced in the UK for domestic consumption. It is now imported from many countries of the world. It is a truly internationally traded commodity. This world trade is not the only change which the poultry meat market has experienced there has been a shift from frozen to fresh, a change from whole chicken to portions, the never-ending demand for breast meat and away from dark meat. Finally, there is the growth in the value-added sector, which in 1998 increased its share of the total retail chicken market from 36.3% to 38.6% of all sales (British Chicken Information Service 1999). Where does organic chicken meat feature in this changing scenario ... 

British Chicken Information Service (1999) British ChickenMarketing Review 1999, British Chicken Information Service, London SW7 4ET. 

UK National Poisons Information Service. National guidelines management of acute paracetamol poisoning. Paracetamol Information Centre in collaboration with the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine. 1995. 

As searches are carried out for OSH information, some of the references found may be in languages other than English but which may have been translated. Many organizations need to have translations made of articles in periodicals, reports and even chapters of books. The Health and Safety Executive Information Service is a prolific source of translations, producing about 700+ a . These translations are all deposited with the British... 

I am profoundly indebted to the British Academy for a grant from the Small Grants Research Fund in the Humanities and to the United States Information Service for another grant to facilitate my research. 

Military Attache, London, to Chief of Ordnance, December 10, 1917, 471.868/144 Backus to Production Division, March 7, 1918, 471.868/152, NARA, RG 156, entry 764, box 141. A British plan for the NRC to provide thirty-five American scientists to help and learn from the British never received funding. MacLeod, Secrets among Friends The Research Information Service and the Special Relationship in Allied Scientific Information and Intelligence, 1916-18 Gilby ( ) to Welles, January 17,... 

Theory of the Initiation of an Explosion by Falling Weight Tests , DokladyAkadNauk 125 (3), 572—73 (1959) [Technical Information and Library Services Translation TIL/T.5038, British Ministry of Aviation, London (1959)]... 

Unfortunately, very little of the publicly accessible information about the SOE is reliable. It is known that the SOE was created at the personal initiative of Sir Winston Churchill as an expansion of Section D (for "Destruction") of the British Secret Intelligence Service, the branch responsible for "aggressive espionage and sabotage" against enemies of the British Empire. (19) Evidently, after World War II, the United States, in Churchill s eyes, fit the definition of "enemy. "... 

In some fields the trade journals prepare and publish abstracts of pertinent information within the field including a certain amount of technical trade literature. At least one specialized abstracting service (the Summary of Current Literature a British publication devoted to the subjects of rubber and related fields including plastics) includes abstracts of appropriate technical data or information appearing in advertisements. The Industrial Arts Index and Chemical Abstracts will frequently report data appearing in trade journals and similar types of publications. 

British Committee for Standards in Haematology GuidelineThis document tends to be the guideline used in Europe. It contains information on indications for oral anticoagulation and management of an anticoagulation service. 

Government Reports. The Office of Technical Services of the Department of Commerce has reports from the Office of the Publication Board (OPB), British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (BIOS), Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS), and Field Information Agency, Technical (FIAT). A file and index of these reports form a valuable addition to any research library. Discretion is required in using this information, and it must be realized that there have been many advances since these reports were written. In spite of this, much information of value can be obtained from these sources. 

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