edited by
Wolfgang G. Stock (Dusseldorf, Germany)

in close cooperation with a board of co-editors
Ronald E. Day (Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.),
Richard J. Hartley (Manchester, U.K.),
Robert M. Hayes (Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.),
Peter Ingwersen (Copenhagen, Denmark),
Michel J. Menou (Les Rosiers sur Loire, France, and London, U.K.),
Stefano Mizzaro (Udine, Italy),
Christian Schloegl (Graz, Austria),
Sirje Virkus (Tallinn, Estonia)

ISSN 1868-842X

Knowledge and Information (K&I) is a peer-reviewed information science book series appearing as a print and as an ebook version, publishing high quality research monographs and topic-specific collections of papers as well. It covers information science to the full extent and alludes additionally to neighboring sciences such as computer science, computational linguistics, (information) business administration, and library science. The language of publication is English.

The scope of information science comprehends representing, providing, searching and finding of relevant knowledge including all activities of information professionals (e.g., indexing and abstracting) and users (e.g., their information behavior). An important research area is information retrieval, the science of search engines and their users. Topics of knowledge representation include metadata as well as methods and tools of knowledge organization systems (folksonomies, nomenclatures, classification systems, thesauri, and ontologies). Informetrics is empirical information science and consists among others of the domain-specific metrics (e.g., scientometrics, webometrics, patent analysis), user and usage research, and evaluation of information systems. Knowledge management is concerned with the sharing and distribution of internal and external information in organizations. The information market can be defined by the exchange of digital information on networks, especial the World Wide Web. Further important research areas of information science are information ethics, information law, information sociology, and information polic