A CASE STUDY IN The PROBLEMS OF INFORMATION PROCESSING IN A SOCIAL SCIENCE FIELD: The OSTI‐SEA PROJECT Available to Purchase

The Sociology of Education Abstracts project, funded by OSTI (Office for Scientific and Technical Information of the Department of Education and Science), is a three‐year project, now, after eighteen months, entering its second phase. The first phase has been concerned with (a) an analysis of SEA practice with regard to selection and abstracting, (b) consultation with specialists over questions relating to the dissemination of information in the sociology of education, and (c) experimentation with selected methods of subject indexing.