From investigations made by the NERC Working Party on Scientific Information it is clear that, even in the restricted field of electronics research, there are already too many different sources of current‐awareness information, mainly abstracts journals and title lists, which must be scanned by a research worker who wishes to keep abreast of developments in his field. To ensure that he knows of all the published and semi‐published information of interest to him he may have to scan more than ten current‐awareness publications each month.