The file contains correspondence with the ESRC Member organisations and European editorial and scientific organisations about the report on the Model Study of the ESRC Ad hoc group for the Rationalisation of Science Journals; the general correspondence with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the correspondence of Anders Kylin, chairman of the ESRC Ad hoc Group for the Rationalisation of Scientific Journals; report of the first international Conference of Scientific Editors (Jerusalem, 24-29/04/1977); correspondence and notes on the European cooperation in the following publication fields: on plant Physiology - also documents on the creation of a Federation of European Societies of Plant Physiology (FESPP) and report on the negociations for rationalisation of scientific journals in plant physiology (Copenhagen, 11-12/03/1976), on Restructuring of scientific journals in informatic - also minutes of the meetings held in Paris on 29/11/1974 and on 29/11/1977, on Bryology, on Geology; correspondence and documents concerning the European Seminar on the "Future of Publishing by Scientific and Technical Societies" sponsored by the CEC (Luxembourg, 3-4/04/1978): list of participants, programme, report of the working groups discussion and papers by Anders Kylin from the ESRC Ad hoc group "The Economy of publication by learned societies: some practical experiences and the ESRC Model Study", by C.P. Whittingham "European co-operation in plant physiology".

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