Study of interjournal references reveals that authors of the leading American and British textile research journals rarely cite research reports from Japan and other countries of Western Europe. The reverse flow, however, is consider able for many countries. This unbalance in information flow was first studied for the period 1963-65 and is virtually unchanged in 1967-70. Recent developments in textile information services lend hope for early improvement in the speed of document transmission, identification, translation, and utilization.
