Author Description

This volume is the first of a projected annual series. It contains both original and previously published articles by policymakers, scholars, scientists and journalists on topics that range from the financial health of academic science, to the state of the art in measuring payoffs from research, to fraud and misconduct in science. Many of the papers are adapted from presentations at the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Colloquium held in Washington, DC, April 1991. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR