"The Handbook on Information Sciences provides a comprehensive overview of the core themes within the discipline, including the organisation of information and how to manage data, and outlines avenues for future research. Discussions on the methodological evolution of the field are enriched by...

Knowledge Management (KM) as a multidisciplinary discipline has strong roots in Information Sciences (IS), which are sometimes overlooked by knowledge managers, while information scientists regard KM sometimes as a particular branch of the IS discipline. This chapter starts with a brief...

The introductory chapter to the Handbook on Information Sciences covers topics from the historical roots and basic concepts of the discipline, classic research areas like classification, document theory, information needs, information behaviour, information seeking, and information retrieval...

Purpose: This paper aims to review for the first time existing research literature about the role of gender in creating, sharing and using knowledge in organizations and proposes a conceptual framework to guide future research directions. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the systematic...