Khosrow-Pour, M. (Ed.). (2005). Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology. Vol. 1-5. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference.

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Review by Beverly Ryan (2005) in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship: http://www.istl.org/05-spring/review1.html

    Extract: "Unlike a traditional encyclopedia with articles arranged by subject, this is arranged alphabetically by title, including initial articles "a", "the" and "an". The result is that the user must sit down with all five volumes to find articles of interest. The index, which is included in each volume, has serious deficiencies. For each topic consulted in the index, additional articles were found in the table of contents that happened to have the pertinent words first in the title. Some index entries were for words merely mentioned in the article, while the major concepts were missing from the index."

Sheila Webber (2005). "Just received this. Find it sort of depressing that this large work with international range of authors, entitled "Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology" has (as far as I can see) little input from what I would call "Information Scientists" - and, indeed, doesn't cover aspects of Information Science that well...Sheila" http://mail.asis.org/pipermail/asis-l/2005-February/001855.html

Michel J. Menou (2005). "I guess Sheila has a good point here. May be the fact that the editor in chief is identified as a member of IRMA is a partial explanation. That points to the basic and urgent need of fostering smoother and more steady interaction among the many professional and scientific societies that deal with the broad IS&T field. Another possible explanation is the reluctance of some colleagues to contribute to commercial publications that require exclusive licence. Best regards 
Michel"  http://mail.asis.org/pipermail/asis-l/2005-February/001858.html