Sources of Information on Atomic Energy, International Series of Monographs in Library and Information Science, Volume 2.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the principal national and international organizations which are sources of information on atomic and nuclear energy and of the published literature in this field. Organizations in all the major nuclear countries such as the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, France, and Japan are described, and for each, details are given of structure, research programs, information services, libraries and principal publications. In addition, the publicly available literature of atomic and nuclear energy such as books, handbooks, encyclopedias, conference proceedings, bibliographies, abstracting services, periodicals and translations are described under the following headings: (1) atomic energy in general, (2) nuclear and high energy physics, (3) nuclear power and engineering, (4) radiation and radio-isotopes, (5) plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion. The book is intended mainly for librarians and information officers. The technical level is that of the intelligent and well-educated general user of reference sources. The index has three sections: (1) an index to organizations, (2) an author index, and (3) an index to periodicals. (LC)