Informing Science is the transdiscipline that studies all issues in informing clients. In recent decades, advances in information technologies magnify the impact and importance of this transdiscipline on many fields of study. Yet transdisciplinary research conducted to date tends to be fieldspecific and not well informed by the works conducted in other fields that are also within this same tran...

This investigation expands understanding of the role of the medium or communication channel in the Informing Science framework by examining the domain of Information Technology project risk. IT projects provide a rich domain for exploring and expanding our understanding of Informing Science because IT project team members often have little or no prior work history together and thus few or no pr...

On 1 January 2009, I was granted the great privilege of assuming the role of Editor-in-Chief of Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InformSciJ). I thank Scott J. Lloyd for his years of stewardship and congratulate him on his promotion to Director of Publications of the Informing Science Institute. In this letter, I intend to identify what I see to be the...

In recent years, it has become almost routine to speculate on the obsolescence or perseverance of the library. These speculations usually conflate the institution of the library with its physical location. This essay presents an overview of existing opinions on whether libraries will persevere, shows how changes in technology and the research process affect the concept of the library, and ultim...

An approach to improve communication processes in e-learning is introduced. Based on a separation of a content-related and a communicational part of e-learning environments a system to support both students and tutors in their communication endeavors is presented. The communication platform consists of administration, configuration, moderation, and certainly communication tools which are descri...

Students of history and philosophy of science courses at my University are either naïve robust realists or naïve relativists in relation to science and technology. The first group absorbs from culture stereotypical conceptions, such as the value-free character of the scientific method, that science and technology are impervious to history or ideology, and that science and religion are always at...

Informing Science is a young transdisciplinary science. the essential characteristics of which were defined fifteen years ago. The journal Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InformSciJ) is the flagship journal of transdisciplinary Informing Science. A study about the publication’s influence and readership could be pertinent to better understanding the p...

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The purpose of this article is to explore effects of ongoing economic globalization by focusing on the organizational and informing aspects of the key globalization stakeholder – the transnational corporation. This is an organization with superior capabilities rooted in digital information and information technology. It is argued that the transpired globalization driven by transnational corpora...

The purpose of this introductory article is to provide an overview of the contributions that make up this Special Series of Informing Science on The Role of Case Studies in Informing Systems, summarizing the major findings and discussing the key issues. In the first two articles, the founder of a leading consultancy and a veteran Harvard Business School professor offer their unique insights on ...