What kind of science can information science be?
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What kind of science can information science be?
During the twentieth century there was a strong desire to develop an Information Science from librarianship, bibliography, and documentation and in 1968 the American Documentation Institute changed its name to American Society for Information Science. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, however, departments of (library and) information science had turned instead towards the social sci...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1532-2882
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21656