UNISIST: A forum

Abstract

The origins of the UNISIST programme proposals are to be found in the concerns of the scientific community itself for the survival of its traditional communication institutions. From the outset, the concern transcended political and ideological boundaries. Scientists of East and West, meeting under Pugwash Conference auspices, in Karlovy Vary in 1964, viewed the tendency toward fractional and unco‐ordinated mechanization of information processing in different countries and in different fields of science with apprehension. Were the sciences in the process of creating in the electronic age a new Tower of Babel? Would the adventitious application of technology defeat the fundamental purpose of free and open scientific communication among all nations?

Citation

Adams, S., Gray, J., Coblans, H. and Matthews, F.W. (1972), "UNISIST: A forum", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 24 No. 2, pp. 111-122. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050325