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recommended to the Director and received his approval for the final step 

 which became effective February 15, 1946. In this final procedure, articles 

 were to be prepared for journals on the volition of individuals and sub- 

 mitted in the usual prewar way. Security clearance so far as required would 

 be applied for directly to the Services by the writer or the journal. As a final 

 step in seeing to it that proper relations were maintained between coworkers, 

 both here and abroad, the Committee on Publications furnished to the 

 editors of technical journals a list of voluntary referees made up of indi- 

 viduals who had had the greatest experience with the various fields through- 

 out the war. 



3. Monographs. As journal publication proceeded, it became apparent 

 that this program could not completely fill the public need. In a few impor- 

 tant instances the situation precluded periodical publication. This was the 

 case when the material to be written had to be the collaborative effort of a 

 number of scientists, momentarily together, but soon to be dispersed to their 

 home institutions, when the length of the subject was such as to preclude 

 journal publication, and when speed of production and distribution indi- 

 cated that the public would be better served by the use of a commercial 

 publisher. The procedure to meet this situation which was evolved by the 

 Committee was approved by the Director on September 19, 1945. It stated 

 the general OSRD policy that there should be an affirmative program to 

 encourage and aid the publication of technical monographs primarily in- 

 tended for the public rather than for Army, Navy, or OSRD use, provided 

 (i) they either served to mobilize the scientific resources of the Nation or 

 supported scientific research for the national defense (cf. paragraph 2 of 

 Executive Order No. 8807); (2) satisfactory evidence was produced in each 

 case that a public need existed for the proposed monograph, and that exist- 

 ing journal media were inadequate to meet that need; (3) the material 

 contained in the proposed monograph had been declassified or would be 

 declassified prior to publication, and (4) the form and contents of the pro- 

 posed monograph did not go beyond what was reasonably necessary to 

 mobilize the scientific resources of the Nation or to meet the particular 

 public need which would not otherwise be met by existing journals. 



The Chairman of the Committee on Publications was authorized to 

 decide as a matter of administrative discretion whether a proposed tech- 

 nical monograph fell within the foregoing policy. He was also authorized 

 to determine whether or not it would facilitate the prosecution of the war 

 to have the printing of particular monographs handled by private publishers 

 rather than by the Government Printing Office. Private publishers were to 

 be selected only after adequate canvassing of the field to determine which 

 publisher could handle the job most satisfactorily from the point of view of 

 the Government, based upon normal business factors as well as the services 

 he was prepared to render. 



The preferred plan was for the Government to contract with private 



