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Tables of contents

A complete list of tables of contents and abstracts from vol. 27 (2000) of KO to date is available.

Online version

ISKO members have right to access the online version after registering at Ergon website.

Status and scope

Knowledge Organization (ISSN 0943-7444) is the official bi-monthly journal of ISKO. It was founded in 1973 by Dr. Ingetraut Dahlberg, the first President of ISKO, with a consulting board of editors representing the world's regions, the special classification fields, and the subject areas involved. The journal began publication in 1974 with the title International Classification; in 1989, it became the official organ of ISKO; and in 1993 (Volume 20), the title was changed to its present form. From 1974 to 1980 it was published by K. G. Saur Verlag of München; from 1981 to 1997 by Indeks Verlag of Frankfurt; and since 1998 by Ergon Verlag of Würzburg.

The contents of the journal are indexed and abstracted in Social Sciences Citation Index, Web of Science, Information Science Abstracts, INSPEC, Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO), Library Literature and Information Science (Wilson), PASCAL, Referativnyi Zhurnal Informatika, and Sociological Abstracts. ISI impact factor for 2009 was 0.552, and corresponding 5-year impact factor was 0.614.

Knowledge Organization publishes original articles, reports on conferences and similar communications, news of ISKO and its regional chapters, as well as book reviews and letters to the editor. Research articles: (1) clarify theoretical foundations (general ordering theory, philosophical foundations of knowledge and its artifacts, theoretical bases of classification, data analysis and reduction); (2) describe practical operations associated with indexing and classification, as well as applications of classification systems and thesauri, manual and machine indexing; (3) trace the history of knowledge organization; (4) discuss questions of education and training in classification; and (5) problems of terminology in general and with respect to special fields.

Book reviews

The journal publishes reviews of recently published KO-related books. Recommended books to be reviewed are listed in Library Thing. Anyone interested in reviewing them or suggest more relevant books is welcome to contact the Review Editor.

Book Review Editor

Submission of manuscripts

Instructions for authors intending to submit manuscripts to Knowledge Organization are available as a PDF file.

Manuscripts must be submitted in electronic form to the editor-in-chief, Richard P. Smiraglia, via email <ko@isko.org>. All inquiries about submission of manuscripts should be also be directed to the editor-in-chief at the same address.

Subscriptions and advertising

All ISKO members receive paper and electronic copies of Knowledge Organization (see the Join ISKO page for details on how to become a member of ISKO). All subscription inquiries by non-members, and all inquiries about advertising, should be directed to the publishers, Ergon Verlag. The annual non-member subscription rate for four issues is 115 euros. Ergon's contact details are as follows:

Mail:

  • Dr. H.-J. Dietrich
    Ergon Verlag
    Grombühlstrasse 7
    97080 Würzburg
    GERMANY

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Telephone:

  • +49 (931) 280-084

Fax:

  • +49 (931) 282-872

Editors

  • Richard P. Smiraglia (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
    Editor-in-Chief
    email: ko@isko.org
     
  • Joseph T. Tennis (University of Washington, USA)
    Book Review Editor
    email: reviews@isko.org
  • Nancy Williamson (University of Toronto, Canada)
    Classification Research News Editor
    email: nancy.williamson@utoronto.ca
  • David Bloom (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
    Editorial Assistant
  • Melodie J. Fox (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
    Editorial Assistant
  • Daniel Martínez Ávila (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
    Editorial Assistant

Editors Emerita

  • Clare Beghtol (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • Ingetraut Dahlberg (Bad König, Germany)
  • Hope A. Olson (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)

Editorial Board

  • Jonathan Furner (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
  • Jesús Gascón García (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
  • Claudio Gnoli (Università di Pavia, Italy)
  • Rebecca Green (Library of Congress, USA)
  • José Augusto Chaves Guimarães (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil)
  • Birger Hjørland (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)
  • Barbara H. Kwaśnik (Syracuse University, USA)
  • Kathryn La Barre (University of Illinois, Champaign, USA)
  • María J. López-Huertas (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
  • Marianne Lykke (Aalborg University, Denmark)
  • Ia C. McIlwaine (University College London, UK)
  • Jens-Erik Mai (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • Widad Mustafa el Hadi (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille 3, France)
  • H. Peter Ohly (Bonn, Germany)
  • K. S. Raghavan (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India)
  • M. P. Satija (Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India)
  • Aida Slavic (UDC Consortium, The Hague, Netherlands)
  • Dagobert Soergel (University at Buffalo, USA)
  • Renato R. Souza (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • Maja Žumer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

 

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