An Inquiry into the Domain of Information Science, with an Emphasis on Contributing Disciplines 1973 to 1998: Preliminary Results

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boyd P. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Subject Areas

Most information scientists appear to agree that the discipline absorbs, within its boundaries, all or part of certain other subject areas. Certain scholars, including Borko, Garrison, Rayward, James G. Williams and Martha E. Williams, have published, separately, what each of them considers those disciplines to be. My research, for which I present preliminary results in this paper, will. . .

Intelligent information systems and artificial intelligence methods

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Andreychikov ◽  
Ol'ga Andreychikova
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Intelligent Information Systems ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Intelligent Information ◽  
State Educational

The textbook discusses the methods of artificial intelligence and their application to solve problems from various subject areas. Methods of acquisition, representation and processing of knowledge in intelligent systems, as well as technologies for designing and implementing intelligent systems, are described. Special attention is paid to the application of intelligent systems for the selection of collective solutions, the design of complex systems( objects), the analysis and forecasting of the enterprise. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For students enrolled in groups of training master's degree program "Management in technical systems", "Computer and information science", "computer science", "engineering and technology land transport", "engineering and construction technology", "Photonics, instrumentation, optical and biotechnical systems and technology", "aerospace engineering", "engineering and technologies of shipbuilding and water transport", and also in the areas of "automation of technological processes and productions", "mechatronics and robotics".

The Visualization of the Citation Patterns of Some Canadian Journals

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Journal Citation

In order to easily see the citation patterns of a journal or subject area it is very useful to use a graphical diagram to visualize all the connections between journals. Using data from derived from the Journal Citation Reports, this study investigates the citation patterns of three Canadian Journals in three subject areas: library and information science, psychology and mathematics.Afin de mieux voir les modèles de citations d’un journal ou d’un domaine, il peut être très utile d’utiliser un schéma graphique pour visualiser toutes les relations entre les journaux. Utilisant les données dérivées du Journal Citation Reports, cette étude examine les modèles de citations de trois journaux canadiens dans trois domaines : la bibliothéconomie et les sciences de l’information, la psychologie et les mathématiques. 

The state of iSchools: an analysis of academic research and graduate education

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Wu ◽  
Daqing He ◽  
Jiepu Jiang ◽  
Wuyi Dong ◽  
Kim Thien Vo
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Education ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods ◽  
Interdisciplinary Integration ◽  
The Web

The emergence of the iSchool movement and the establishment of iSchools have helped to reshape the landscape of the library and information science (LIS) discipline. In this article, based on a set of research questions focusing around the research and education efforts of about 25 iSchools, we performed a study using both quantitative and qualitative methods on publically available data obtained from the web. Our results show that iSchools share the same vision and mission of working on relationships between information, people and technology, and have established themselves as the appropriate institutions for researchers from diverse subject areas to study this interdisciplinary integration. Overall, we are seeing an emerging iSchool identity and a defining iField, but there are still many important developments to make.

scholarly journals Open Access

Communication ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Baker
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Number Of Citations

Put simply, “open access” is the sharing of scholarly research at no cost to end users. Although it was first popularized in the Budapest, Bethesda, and Berlin statements in 2002 and 2003, there is still no universally agreed-upon definition for the term. At a minimum, a work must be freely available at no cost. Most proponents agree, additionally, that work must be released under a license that allows for it to be freely copied, used, and modified to qualify as open access. Although open access typically refers to scholarly journal articles, it can also be applied to monographs, gray literature, and other types of scholarly and nonscholarly work. Research is made available as open access in a number of ways. The two main models are “green” open access, where published works are placed in a free-to-access repository, and “gold” open access, where journals publish articles under a license that allows readers free access to their contents. In the nearly twenty years since the first open access declarations, its proponents have been broadly successful in propagating the movement’s ideals, with the result that more and more research in many subject areas has been made available under a green, gold, or other open access model. Many studies have shown that publishing a work as open access increases the number of citations it receives and improves its scores on a variety of metrics, although not all studies show a positive relationship. The growing support for open access, and upcoming initiatives like Plan S, in which a consortium of funders will require open access publishing as a condition of receiving funding, as well as continuing interest in open access from scholars, libraries, publishers, funders, and societies alike, means that open access is set to become ever more relevant to those studying scholarly communications, and research on the topic continues to grow accordingly. Research about open access is often practical in nature, and typically comes from scholars and researchers of scholarly communication, the publishing industry, or library and information science; however, because the benefits of open access apply to those in nearly all fields of study, researchers should be prepared to find studies and proponents that are interdisciplinary in nature or are published in journals outside of the sphere of communications.

scholarly journals BRINGING THINGS TO THE CENTER:: THE CENTER FOR THE CULTURAL RECORD OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta I. Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
First Century ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
American University ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
The University

Despite the death threats against schools of library and information science (LIS) that were rampant during the final decades of the twentieth century, LIS graduate programs are alive and well and have a promising prognosis for the twenty-first century. The challenge, however, is to adapt to the changing personae of the American university and the emerging roles of information professionals in all aspects of our society. Today’s university is less concerned with maintaining the strict boundaries of traditional disciplines and instead encourages thinking that is transdisciplinary. Although this new model respects the uniqueness of various subject areas, it celebrates collaboration . . .

scholarly journals Scientific output in library and information science: A comparative study of the journals Anales de Documentación and BiD textos universitaris en biblioteconomia i documentació

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 440-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercè Vàzquez ◽  
Jordi Ardanuy ◽  
Alexandre López-Borrull ◽  
Candela Ollé
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academic Content

In recent years, academic journals have evolved to become a vehicle for scientific communication that is acknowledged by the official organizations that certify their quality. This enables assessments to be performed, determining how a discipline has evolved through the analysis of bibliometric indicators and the keywords used to index the articles. In the field of library and information science, it is particularly interesting to study the articles published in the journals specializing in this area but few studies have performed an in-depth analysis of the discipline. In order to gain a detailed view of the evolution of library and information science, we have carried out a bibliometric and thematic study of the journals Anales de Documentación (AD) and BiD textos universitaris en biblioteconomia i documentació (BiD) between 2000 and 2013. The analysis focuses on the number of articles and authors, the evolution of the sections and the contents. In addition, a thematic study determines the level of similarity between the two journals’ contents, the subject areas they belong to and whether there is any subject continuity during the period analysed. The results confirm that in BID, practitioner-focused subject matter is double that of the academic content, unlike AD, which shows a preference for academic content. The thematic study confirms that there is little similarity between the content of the two publications; that the subjects where there is overlap are basically concerned with information units, information technologies, auxiliary sciences and techniques, and library science; and that there is little continuity in the subjects covered during the period analysed.

Non-synchronism in theoretical research of information science

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Wang ◽  
Jing Yang ◽  
Yejun Wu
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Theory Use ◽  
First Time

PurposeThis paper aims to reveal the global non-synchronism that exists in the theoretical research of information science (IS) by analyzing and comparing the distribution of theory use, creation and borrowing in four representative journals from the USA, the UK and China.Design/methodology/approachQuantitative content analysis is adopted as the research method. First, an analytical framework for non-synchronism in theoretical research of IS is constructed. Second, theories mentioned in the full texts of the research papers of four journals are extracted according to a theory dictionary made before. Third, the non-synchronism in the theoretical research of IS is analyzed.FindingsNon-synchronism exists in many aspects of the theoretical research of IS between journals, subject areas and countries/regions. The theoretical underdevelopment still exists in some subject areas of IS. IS presents obvious interdisciplinary characteristics. The theoretical distance from IS to social sciences is shorter than that to natural sciences.Research limitations/implicationsThis study investigates the theoretical research of IS from the perspective of non-synchronism theory, reveals the theoretical distance from IS to other sciences, deepens the communication between different subject and regional sub-communities of IS and provides new evidences for the necessity of developing domestic theories and theorists of IS.Originality/valueThis study introduces the theory of non-synchronism to IS research for the first time, investigates the new advances in theoretical research of IS and provides new quantitative evidences for the understanding of the interdisciplinary characteristics of IS and the necessity of better communication between sub-communities of IS.

scholarly journals Applications and applicability of Social Cognitive Theory in information science research

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 927-937
Author(s):  
Lyndsey Middleton ◽  
Hazel Hall ◽  
Robert Raeside
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognitive Theory ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Innovative Work ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Relationship

Social Cognitive Theory is a theory that derives from Psychology yet has been adopted in other interdisciplinary subject areas, including information science. The origins and key concepts of Social Cognitive Theory are presented, and the value of its contributions to information science research analysed, with particular reference to research into information-seeking behaviour and use and knowledge sharing. Prior applications of Social Cognitive Theory in information science research are related to a study of employee-led workplace learning and innovative work behaviour that has been designed to create new insight on: (1) workplace information literacy; (2) knowledge management; and (3) the relationship between information behaviours and innovation processes. It is anticipated that this research will also extend understandings of Social Cognitive Theory as a valuable tool for theory development across a range of domains that focus on learning processes.

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