Informatics: A brief survey

Electronic Library

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-122

  He, Shaoyi ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer operators; Information management; Information technology; Science; Scientific management

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037545496     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640470310470480     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Ball, M.J. and Hannah, K. (1988), "What is informatics and what does it mean for nursing?", in Ball, M., Hannah, K., Gerdin Jelger U. and Peterson, H. (Eds), Nursing Informatics: Where Caring and Technology Meet, Springer Verlag, New York, NY, pp. 81-7.
2. Cawkell, A.E. (1997), "Informatics", in Feather, J. and Sturges, P. (Eds), International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science, Routledge, London, pp. 176-84.
3. Coy, W., Freska, C., Jantzen, M. and Valk, R. (1997), Foundations of Computer Science: Potential, Theory, Cognition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
4. Gorn, S. (1983), "Informatics", in Machlup, F. and Mansfield, U. (Eds), The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages, Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, pp. 121-40.
5. Kling, R. (1993), "Organizational informatics", Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 19 No. 5, July/July, pp. 14-16.
6. MacDougall, J. and Brittain, J.M. (1994), Health Informatics. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, Vol. 29, pp. 183-217.
7. 1", OED, Clarendon Press, Oxford, available at: http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00116499 (accessed 12 September 2000).
8. President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (2000), available at: www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/NSTC/PCAST/pcast.html (accessed 12 September 2000).
9. Sawyer, S. and Rosenbaum, H. (2000), "Social informatics in the information sciences: current activities and emerging directions", Informing Science, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 89-95.
10. Wellisch, H. (1972), "From information science to informatics: a terminological investigation", Journal of Librarianship, Vol. 4, pp. 157-87.