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WITHIN the limits of its survey, the report of the Royal Society on the needs of research in fundamental science after the War indicates that there is little the matter with the existing structure of research in Great Britain: with increased endowment the provision of new research institutes in such fields as oceanography, microbiology, meteorology, geophysics, ecology, and with an adequate supply of scientific workers, it should be capable of expansion, without substantial modification, to meet the increased needs of to-day. There is, however, one important direction in which the findings of the report are closely parallel with those of the report which, under the title “Science—the Endless Frontier”, Dr. Vannevar Bush presented last year to the President of the United States. One of the specific questions on which Dr. Bush was asked for recommendations was what could be done to make known to the world, as soon as possible, the contributions to scientific knowledge which had been made during the war effort. Dr. Bush's review of the structure of research in the United States gives emphasis to this question of the full and free interchange of publication and its value as a stimulus to scientific research, and it is clearly recognized by him, as by the committee under Dr. Irwin Stewart which reported to Dr. Bush on this subject, that this is a matter requiring international collaboration as well as national action.
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Scientific Information Services. Nature 158, 353–356 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158353a0
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