Euroabstracts: 1996 fourth edition
The fourth 1996 edition of "Euroabstracts", providing information and abstracts of RTD-related publications from the European Community has been published. The first section contains a number of articles outlining RTD publications from Member States, Central and Eastern European countries, international organizations and from the European Community. A major article highlights a number of activities within the Community aimed at reducing air pollution from road transport. These include the activities of the Commission's Task Forces on the "Car of Tomorrow" and "Transport Intermodality" and of the Auto Oil programme. Other articles cover: the Commission's new approach to evaluation of RTD activities; RTD in rural and island regions; and EUROSTAT's "Statistics in Focus" series of bulletins on research and development. The "Webwatch" section, which aims to highlight RTD resources on the World Wide Web, covers the INNOVATION programme's recently launched homepage on the CORDIS server. Section II includes abstracts of over 300 recent Community publications on research, science and technology, covering a wide range of subjects, including: earth sciences; engineering and technology; energy; life sciences; materials; mathematics; computers and telecommunications; nuclear science and engineering and physics.