%0 Conference Paper %1 brookes1990biblio %A Brookes, Bertram Claude %B nformetrics 89/90 : selection of papers submitted for the second International Conference on Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics, London, Ontario, Canada, 5-7 July 1989 %D 1990 %E Egghe, Leo %E Rousseau, Ronald %I Elsevier %K bibliometrics informetrics scientometrics %T Biblio-, Sciento-, Infor-metrics??? What are we talking about? %U https://uhdspace.uhasselt.be/dspace/handle/1942/857 %X This paper traces the origins of informatics, scientometrics and informetrics in the USSR and Hungary; the origins of information science, information studies and bibliometrics in Britain and the USA, and their interactions with library studies. Finaly, three different contexts are suggested in which the three '-metrics' have distinctive and important rules.