What Every Hydraulic Engineer Should Know About Technical Information
Katharine A. Hayes · Hydraulics and Hydrology in the Small Computer Age · 1985
This paper traces the development of indexing and abstracting of scientific literature and discusses present-day concepts of current awareness, online literature searching and numeric databases. A detailed enumeration of the many types of technical information which an hydraulic engineer might encounter is provided. Finally, the value of information is discussed along with the role the information professional should play in the provision of technical information.