Aslib Proceedings: Volume 41 Issue 5

The Defence Research Information Centre: services and new developments

G. Farquhar

The Defence Research Information Centre, or DRIC as it is commonly known, is the MOD's central deposit and dissemination point for defence scientific and technical literature to…

Government approach to Information Management

Diana Sangway

In 1919 the Stationery Office published a booklet written by the Treasury called, Notes for the use of Registry Branches. This was an excellent little guide to carrying out all…

Networks update

Bill Tuck

Technology, politics and the marketplace: While the underlying technology for constructing networks continues to evolve very rapidly, forces from the ‘political’ sphere and from…

Online and CD‐ROM update

Sylvia James

This review covers developments in digital published information services mostly in the Business Information field. There are however, general trends in the development and…