Purpose - This paper aims to present an overview of the design thinking (DT) methodology applied to information science research focusing on the user journey. DT stages are essential to understand, create and implement ...

The article focuses on the ways of organizing studies according to their methodological choices in the Base Referencial de Artigos de Periodicos em Ciencia da Informacao (Reference Database of Journal articles in Information ...

People claim the right to study and learn what they desire, when and where they want; for this reason it is necessary to offer flexible training methods that provide real opportunities for independent learning. In order ...

Ethnography is an essential methodological approach to understand the social demands of the field of Information Science and can be used in different environments, among them, in prison. The aim of this article is to expose ...

The article discusses Bertalanffy's project for the unity of science in the particular field of social sciences. The aim is to analyse shortcomings and to sketch new approaches to this matter. We identify two main obstacles, ...