Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Editorial
- Guest Editorial: Meeting the challenge
- 1 Fifty years of UK research in information science
- 2 Smoother pebbles and the shoulders of giants: the developing foundations of information science
- 3 The last 50 years of knowledge organization: a journey through my personal archives
- 4 On the history of evaluation in IR
- 5 The information user: past, present and future
- 6 The sociological turn in information science
- 7 From chemical documentation to chemoinformatics: 50 years of chemical information science
- 8 Health informatics: current issues and challenges
- 9 Social informatics and sociotechnical research – a view from the UK
- 10 The evolution of visual information retrieval
- 11 Information policies: yesterday, today, tomorrow
- 12 The disparity in professional qualifications and progress in information handling: a European perspective
- 13 Electronic scholarly publishing and Open Access
- 14 Social software: fun and games, or business tools?
- 15 Bibliometrics to webometrics
- 16 How I learned to love the Brits
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Editorial
- Guest Editorial: Meeting the challenge
- 1 Fifty years of UK research in information science
- 2 Smoother pebbles and the shoulders of giants: the developing foundations of information science
- 3 The last 50 years of knowledge organization: a journey through my personal archives
- 4 On the history of evaluation in IR
- 5 The information user: past, present and future
- 6 The sociological turn in information science
- 7 From chemical documentation to chemoinformatics: 50 years of chemical information science
- 8 Health informatics: current issues and challenges
- 9 Social informatics and sociotechnical research – a view from the UK
- 10 The evolution of visual information retrieval
- 11 Information policies: yesterday, today, tomorrow
- 12 The disparity in professional qualifications and progress in information handling: a European perspective
- 13 Electronic scholarly publishing and Open Access
- 14 Social software: fun and games, or business tools?
- 15 Bibliometrics to webometrics
- 16 How I learned to love the Brits
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Information Science in Transition , pp. 384 - 401Publisher: FacetPrint publication year: 2009