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MEMORANDUM 3- 25-65 TO: Members of the Staff who prepare papers for publication It is undesirable, as a rule, to refer to reports .. of the Laboratory made to Sponsors in papers prepared for publication, since such references bring requests for these reports. As these reports often contain confidential information, they cannot be supplied, except confidentially, to other interested persons, and unless one knows that they are suitable for issuance to others and that there are available copies for distribution, they should not be mentioned in public. The reference to such work in a published article, if made, should indicate simply that there are unpublished data in the Laboratory. It follows that reports which contain information suitable for publication should be prepared and offered for publication. One of the primary functions of a research organization is the dissemination of information for the good of all concerned. The right to publish the results of investigations is guarded jealously in the agreements of the Laboratory with the Sponsors of its work, and the effort should be made, by all principal investigators to prepare articles for publication in such form and numbers as to fulfill this responsibility to our professional colleagues. All of us have been somewhat negligent in this matter, the result being that there is a large backlog of unpublished and generally useful information in the reports of the Laboratory to its Sponsors. . RAK:meh Robert A. Kehoe, M.D. Director K 0003153