Information Science in Transition

ISBN-13: 9781856046930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 416 str.

Alan Gilchrist

Opis

This breakthrough collection, featuring landmark contributions from international experts including accomplished professor Blaise Cronin, offers a forward-looking focus on exciting future trends and developments in information science. There are fifteen chapters that cover a variety of the field's hottest topics, like sociological influences, health and chemical documentation, information policies and informatics - the convergence of information science and information technology. You'll find fresh insight into the rapidly emerging digital domain, with chapters on electronic publishing, social software and webometrics. Already added to required reading lists in universities across the globe, this progressive compilation will peak your curiosity and present all of the significant changes, advances and trends you need to know about as an information science professional.

Spis treści

Preface - Alan Gilchrist Editorial - Alan Gilchrist Guest Editorial: Meeting the challenge - Brian Vickery 1. Fifty years of UK research in information science - Jack Meadows 2. Smoother pebbles and the shoulders of giants: the developing foundations of information science - David Bawden 3. The last 50 years of knowledge organization: a journey through my personal archives - Stella G. Dextre Clarke 4. On the history of evaluation in IR -Stephen Robertson 5. The information user: past, present and future - Tom Wilson 6. The sociological turn in information science - Blaise Cronin 7. From chemical documentation to chemoinformatics: 50 years of chemical information science - Peter Willett 8. Health informatics: current issues and challenges - Peter A. Bath 9. Social informatics and sociotechnical research – a view from the UK - Elisabeth Davenport 10. The evolution of visual information retrieval - Peter Enser 11. Information policies: yesterday, today, tomorrow - Elizabeth Orna 12. The disparity in professional qualifications and progress in information handling: a European perspective - Barry Mahon 13. Electronic scholarly publishing and Open Access - Charles Oppenheim 14. Social software: fun and games, or business tools? - Wendy A. Warr 15. Bibliometrics to webometrics - Mike Thelwall 16. How I learned to love the Brits - Eugene Garfield

O autorze

Alan Gilchrist