Acknowledgment

The chapters in this collection provide evidence in support of the fact that collaborative information behavior is a theme of current interest to researchers and practitioners from a number of different fields. Contributors to this collection work for example in the fields of information studies, computer-supported cooperative work, education, human-computer interaction, journalism, medicine, and internet research. Since the objective of the book was to co-ordinate contributions from a number of fields in order to support a more common understanding of the issues, problems, and opportunities of studying collaborative information behavior, I am very grateful to the chapter authors, and reviewers for taking the plunge, and setting sail in cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary waters. If the book goes some way to providing others with some of the conceptual, methodological, analytical, and technical tools that can be used to navigate these waters then it will have fulfilled its purpose. I would also like to thank IGI Global for their efficiency in bringing the collection to publication.

Jonathan Foster

University of Sheffield, UK