Information Research Weblog

A short article on publishing Information Research has been published in ScieCom Info, an electronic newsletter published by the Svenskt Resurscentrum för vetenskaplig kommunikation.

The other articles in English in this issue are:
Modes of Publication and Scientific Quality, by Thomas Brante, Professor, Department of Sociology, Lund University, which is a lovely piece, pulling the plug on the idiocy of allowing citation rankings for largely US journals, refereed by US scholars, publishing papers from US universities, to govern research policy in European countries;

The Why and How of JISC Support for Open Access, by Frederick J. Friend, JISC Consultant, OSI Open Access Advocate, Honorary Director Scholarly Communication UCL — a useful review which, however, doesn't tell us why JISC has no programme of support for journals such as Information Research :-) If I published a commercial journal I could get support for moving to an open access model (presumably one involving author charging), but being already open access (and without author charges) I am not an appropriate publisher;

The Simple Book, by Sara Gidlund, Editor at Gidlunds Förlag, in praise, as you might guess of the printed book; and

Electronic Publications - Access Now and in the Future A Seminar at the Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden, 18 October 2005, by Tomas Lundén, Librarian, Lund University Libraries, Head Office — a useful conference report.