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Information Science: Science or Social Science?

Name: Information Science: Science or Social Science?
Keywords: Information, Information Science, Informatics, Science, Social Science, Information Systems, Interdisciplinary Science, Computing, Information Technologies, Applied Science, Pure Science, Higher Education, IST.

Sreeramana Aithal; Paul P.K.,; Bhuimali A.;

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Published: 26 Sep 2017

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Collection, selection, processing, management, and dissemination of information are the main and ultimate role of Information Science and similar studies such as Information Studies, Information Management, Library Science, and Communication Science and so on. However, Information Science deals with some different characteristics than these subjects. Information Science is most interdisciplinary Science combines with so many knowledge clusters and domains. Information Science is a broad discipline more clearly; Domain of Domains. This is a combination of Science, Management, Technology, Engineering, Humanities and Social Science fields. Information Science extra...

doi: 10.5281/zenodo.996935 , 10.5281/zenodo.996934

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ACM Computing Classification System: ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION

free text keywords: Information, Information Science, Informatics, Science, Social Science, Information Systems, Interdisciplinary Science, Computing, Information Technologies, Applied Science, Pure Science, Higher Education, IST.

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