1. Work is in hand both on European collaboration and on collaboration between the UK and Japan. A guide to the schemes promoting collaboration between the UK and other European countries has just been published:European collaboration in science and technology: a guide for the UK scientist and engineer (SEPSU, 1987).
2. THE ROYAL SOCIETY,Evaluation of national performance in basic research (ABRC Science Policy Study No. 1; Advisory Board for the Research Councils, London, 1986); D. C. SMITH, P. M. D. COLLINS, D. M. HICKS, S. WYATT, National performance in basic research,Nature, 323 (1986) 681; P. M. D. COLLINS, M. HART, D. M. HICKS, UK performance in basic solid state physics,Physics in Technology, 18 (1987) 72.
3. ABRC Science Policy Study;B. R. Martin,1986
4. P. HEALEY, H. ROTHMAN, P. K. HOCH, An experiment in science mapping for research planning,Research Policy, 15 (1986) 233.
5. Published papers are, of course, not the only product of basic research, and a comprehensive evaluation of performance would also have to look at the skills generated or taught during research, increases in trained manpower, stimulus to colleagues, etc.