Primary Scientific Publication and the Federal Government: The nation's principal supporter of research has a major responsibility toward publication of results.

The federal government, as the nation's largest supporter of scientific research, is also its greatest producer and user of scientific information. That this properly and necessarily involves it deeply in the publication of the results of research, government and non-government, is underlined in the following pair of paragraphs from a recently issued report of the President's Science Advisory Committee (16).