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It is well known that the output of scientific literature is increasing year by year. Some say that it is doubling every fifteen years and others that it is doubling in half this time. No very accurate measurements of the rate of growth exist, but this does not matter as it is plain to see that already it is very difficult to find your way through the existing mass of literature and the position is obviously becoming worse. My task is to consider this problem from the point of view of the would‐be user of scientific literature and to consider to what extent he can be helped by external services and to what extent he must learn to help himself.