Systems science and collaborative information systems : theories, practices and new research

1. Vertical integration of science: an approach to including information, knowledge and its organization / Emilia Currás -- 2. What is information?: an enquiry beyond information science from a systemic point of view / Francisco-Javier García-Marco -- 3. Information: a multidimensional reality / José María Díaz Nafría -- 4. Informationism, information and its neuronal theories / Emilia Currás -- 5. The complexity of finding information in collaborative information systems: cognitive needs / Aida Varela and Marilene Lobo -- 6. Understanding user attitudes toward information systems: a grounded theory approach / David A. Jank -- 7. Review and brief history of collaborative systems: taxonomy, services and classification / Nuria Lloret Romero -- 8. Adaptive information retrieval based on task context / Bich-Liên Doan and Jean-Paul Sansonnet -- 9. Metadata for information retrieval in archives / Vicent Giménez Chornet -- 10. Management systems of user interfaces functionalities in Latin: American Web OPACs / Elsa Barber ... [et al.] -- 11. Academic libraries as complex systems / Álvaro Quijano-Solís and Guadalupe Vega-Díaz -- 12. Cultural Management 2.0 / Margarita Cabrera Méndez -- 13. Coagmento: a case study in designing a user-centric collaborative information seeking system / Chirag Shah