为了汲取他人经验,开扩思路,避免重复,铸造科技工作者与其他专业人员一样,在进行科研或设计工作中,需要查阅大量有关西方文献。由于不同课题、不同工作阶段查阅的内容不同,所以我们应当对本行业的外文文献情况有一定了解。要从数量庞大、类型复杂、文种多样、内容交叉的资料中迅速准确地找到需要的内容,还必须讲究一定的方法。本文扼要介绍一些铸工专业的外文文献情况以及它们的用法,目的是想引起本行业的同志在科研工作中对国外文献的重视,将现有资料充分地利用起来,更好地为我国四个现 In order to learn from others’ experience, to expand ideas and avoid duplication, foundry technologists, like other professionals, need to consult extensively about Western literature in their research or design work. Due to different topics, different work stages of access to different content, so we should have some knowledge of the industry’s foreign literature. It is also necessary to pay attention to certain methods to quickly and accurately find what is needed from a huge number of types, complex types, diverse languages, and cross-sectional material. This article gives a brief introduction of some castings of professional foreign literature and their usage, the purpose is to cause comrades in the field of research work in foreign literature emphasis, the existing information to make full use of better for our country four are