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About 'The Hyams Archive' at City University, London. By arrangement with Monty’s
executors in 2014, a collection of his legacy papers entered the care
of: http://www.city.ac.uk/department-library-information-science This includes business correspondence fit for public viewing, most notably exchanges (from 1969) with heads of WIPO, Inpadoc and national patent offices, concerning various scenarios for a World Patents Index; then later with prospects of cooperation between Derwent and, in particular, Inpadoc. Correspondence
internal to the
Thomson organisation and concerning potential business acquisitions is
initially excluded from the Archive. DERWENT SUBSCRIBER MEETING REPORTS 1964-82 These typically
include agenda, sample materials,
state-of-play summaries, developmental issues, papers given, views
expressed,
attendees list. Average length is about 40 pages. There are
also two instruction manuals, hundreds of pages
long. Most of the
following are complete bound booklets.
Indented
items are pages of notes, apparently in preparation for
booklets.
1964:
Combined Farmdoc and Ringdoc. London & New York.
1966:
Plasdoc and Polydoc.
1967: Pestdoc/Vetdoc notes
1968: Ringdoc notes
1969: Pestdoc/Vetdoc
notes
1970: Ringdoc notes
1971: New integrated
search system notes
1971-2: Ringdoc notes 1971:
Computer Meeting. Frankfurt
& Washington. 1972:
Literature Division Joint
Annual Meetings. London & Washington. 1972: CENTRAL
PATENTS INDEX
INSTRUCTION MANUALS 1973: Literature
Division Joint
Annual Meetings. Tokyo, London, Washington. 1973: Literature
Division Subscriber
Meetings – Reprints of papers given. 1973: Literature
Division: Ringdoc,
Pestdoc and Vetdoc – Questionnaire results and decisions. 1974: Literature
Division Joint
Annual Meetings: (Japan). 2 booklets, include results &
decisions 1975: CPI/WPI:
Questionnaire results
& Decisions. 1975: Ringdoc:
Questionnaire results
& Decisions.
1976: CPI/WPI Online
Service notes
1976: Notes on despatch 1976: Literature
Division: Report of
Annual Meetings. (Japan, US, UK) 1976: CPI
and WPI INSTRUCTION
MANUALS 1976: CPI
Washington Meeting, Notes. 1976: CPI
Tokyo Meeting, Notes. 1977: Literature
Division: Report of
Annual Meetings. (Japan, UK) 1977: Literature
Division: Notes for
Regional Secretaries’ Meeting, London 1977:
Literature Division: Report
following Regional Secretaries’ Meeting, London 1977: CPI:
Report of Subscriber
Meetings
1977: CPI UK meeting,
list of attendees 1978: International
Patents
Conference 1978, UK: Booklet for use at, Part 1 1978: International
Patents
Conference 1978, UK: Booklet for use at, Part 2 1978: CPI:
Report of Meetings of
Subscriber Representative Committees 1978: Literature
Division: Report of
Joint Annual Meetings. (Japan, UK) 1979: Literature
Division: Report of
Joint Annual Meetings. (Japan, UK) 1979: CPI: Subscriber Meeting,
London. Booklet for use
at 1979: CPI: Subscriber Meeting, US.
Booklet for use at 1980: Literature
Division: Report of
Joint Annual Meetings. (Japan, UK, US) 1981: Literature
Division: Report of
Joint Annual Meetings. (Japan, UK) 1982: CPI
Annual Subscriber Meetings
(UK, US, Japan): Booklet for use at 1982:
Literature Division: Report of
Joint Annual Meetings. (Japan, UK) The Hyams
Archive includes also these TALKS AND BROCHURES 1962: Derwent
Information Service. Brochure.
16pp. 1965: Foreign
Patents Documentation: Article in Journal
of Chemical Documentation. 6.
101. 1st
page only. 1970:
Central
Patents Index. Brochure. 12pp. 1970: Chemical
Patents Information. 5pp A4. Article by MH in Chemistry
in Britain. Vol.6, No.10 1974: The role of
patent information in
research and development: Lecture by MH to WIPO Moscow
Symposium,
October 8-11 1975. Derwent Publications Ltd. From
Report of
the Japan Patent Association Study Team in Europe and America. (25pp
out of
198pp in the complete Report, which is included in the Hyams Archive,
which
also covers 6 other services, 4 patent offices and 7 major users.) 1977: Patent documentation for the chemical
industry – future developments. Paper given to Patent
Documentation Group.
8 ppA4. 1980: Some problems of a database producer.
Address to Information Industry Association. 17ppA5. 1982: Derwent’s patent services – latest
developments. Paper given to Patent Documentation Group. 16pp
A4. 1982. 1983: The Future and Derwent. Paper
given to
Association of Information Officers in the Pharmaceutical Industry
(AIOPI).
11ppA5. (Complete proceedings includes 21 other papers). 1984: Chemical patents information: the
challenge
of change. Presented at 1984 Annual Meeting of American
Chemical Society.
6pp. 1984: Monty Hyams talks to Infotecture Europe.
Interview in January 1984 edition. 1984: Multi-level retrieval of new patent
compounds. Presented at Chemical Structure Association
conference in
Sheffield. 6pp. 1987: Information for chemists – a European
viewpoint. Aslib Proceedings. 13pp. 1987: How to profit from information technologies. Information Services & Use. 8pp. |
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