The authors of this paper were formerly involved in designing computer‐assisted services for physicists, particularly with respect to the improvements to facilities offered by Physics Abstracts . This study arose from discussions concerned with defining what the literature of physics is. This is an extremely difficult task, but one which has to be faced by those providing a service which aims to give an acceptable coverage of the relevant literature.
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East et al. (1969) studied this question.