Contiene bibliografía

What is Information Science? disciplines and professions. -- ; History of information: the story of documents. -- ; Philosophies and paradigms of information science. -- ; Basic concepts of information science. -- ; Domain analysis. -- ; Information organization. -- ; Information technologies: creation, dissemination and retrieval. -- ; Informetrics. -- ; Information behaviour. -- ; Communicating information: changing contexts. -- ; Information society. -- Information management and policy. -- ; Digital literacy. -- ; Information science research: what and how?. -- ; The future of information sciences

Takes a whole subject approach to information science as a discipline, covering critical topics as: foundations, concepts, theories and historical perspectives; organizing and retrieving information; information behaviour, domain analysis and digital literacies; technologies, digital libraries and information management; information research methods and informetrics; changing contexts as information society, publishing, e-science and digital humanities; the future of the discipline. (Editor)