Reviews the concept of thematic analysis, discusses its strengths and limitations, and explores the applicability of the concept to the literature of information science through an examination of articles from volumes 16-27 of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science. A 16-item reference list is attached. (JL)

A potential long range role for information science involves active participation in forming a complete suprasystem of knowledge which would unify the arts, sciences and professions. (Author/MM)

Discusses recent European library and information science (LIS) events. Describes the development and use of regional and intra-European Union networks for science. Highlights three European conferences held in 1996: ACM-SIGIR on information retrieval held in Switzerland, Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) held in Finland, and Conceptions of…

Librarianship and science are antithetical as knowledge systems because the substance of the former is instrumental to the latter, and vice versa. This is revealed by the diametric oppositions of their objects and methods of study, and their objects and means of mastery. (Author)

Recommends that the American Society for Information Science become involved and cooperate with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the issue of scientific freedom and responsibility. (Author/PF)

The scientific information diffusion theory is used to explain the increased citation frequency of recently published articles in respect to the normal exponential decay of older articles. Appendices illustrate this approach. (Author/FM)

Applies a recently suggested method for the automatic indexing of full text to extracts from the Brown Corpus and finds that scientific and technical extracts give rise to a larger number of index terms than social science and humanities extracts. Four tables and an 8-item reference list accompany the text. (Author/JL)

This study of 846 scientific research papers investigated the status of scientific communication in the context of interdisciplinary collaboration. Concludes that collaborative research contributed significantly to interdisciplinarity in some disciplines and not in others. Survey findings are discussed from the perspective of scientist-scientist…

This Perspectives issue of the "Journal of the American Society for Information Science" brings together a collection of papers that explore the behavioral and organizational aspects of the changing communication system of science. Authors address such issues as the adoption of computer-mediated communication by scientists, the changing…

Interdisciplinarity in Canadian science is considered from the point of view of the interaction of significant Canadian journals. Most of these journals cite themselves primarily, and journals in other or related sciences receive few citations. Thus, it can be concluded that the degree of interdisciplinarity is very low in Canadian science.…

The interrelationships of the branches of the sciences and technology are analyzed by means of linkages derived from the listing of journals under more than one subject category in the list Source Journals Arranged by Category'' from the Science Citation Index'', 1970. (4 references) (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the future of electronic communications in science. The analysis concludes that communicative plurality and communicative heterogeneity are durable features of the scholarly landscape, and that field differences in the use of and meaning ascribed to communications forums are likely to persist, even as…

Comparisons of "hard" and "soft" science in a user study and a citation study are shown to exhibit a previously unnoticed complementarity. (Author/PF)

Presents the results of an investigation into information structures in natural language science texts. (Author)

Examines the quantity and citation rates of Canadian scientific journals. (PF)