§ 5. Mr. Neaveasked the Parliamentary Secretary for Science what steps have been taken to secure the availability to research scientists of translations from foreign languages, especially Russian, of scientific literature.
§ Mr. Denzil FreethThe National Lending Library for Science and Technology is collecting and making available published translations into English of scientific literature. The Library has made special efforts to collect all the existing translations from Russian into English. In addition, the Library arranges for translations from Russian and co-operates to this end with similar institutions in the U.S.A.
§ Mr. NeaveIs my hon. Friend aware of the need for co-operation with Europe in this field? What arrangements exist in that respect with regard to the more difficult languages of scientists?
§ Mr. FreethI am, indeed, appreciative of the need for this. The O.E.E.C. is in the process of setting up an independent organisation—the European Translation Centre—which will be attached to the University at Delft in Holland. This centre will be used to some extent by the National Lending Library and will translate into English, French and German from Eastern European languages, which I presume are the ones to which my hon. Friend referred.