...C. Ross; M. Terras; C. Warwick; A. Welsh Purpose To date, few studies have been undertaken to make explicit how microblogging technologies are used by and can benefit scholars. This paper aims to investigate the use of Twitter by an academic community in various conference settings, and to pose...

...Brian Vickery The background to the RSSIC is described, and the general nature of the conference. Some of its themes, achievements and limitations are briefly discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Conferences Royal Society of London Conferencing Journal of Documentation, Vol. 54, No. 3...

...Maurice B. Line The Royal Society Scientific Information Conference of 1948 was a top level attempt to look at scientific and technical information in the light of the post‐war growth of the literature. Some of the large number of recommendations have been made irrelevant by advances in technology...