[Asis-l] New Issue of Information Research

Wed Sep 22 09:04:01 EDT 2010

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Tom Wilson <wilsontd at gmail.com> wrote:

> The new issue has been up online for a week now, but pressure of work has
> not permitted me to get the word out.  The url is:
>
> http://informationr.net/ir/15-3/infres153.html
>
> Here's part of the Editorial:
>
>  *In this issue*
>
> In addition to the conference papers we have five papers for this issue,
> covering the usually wide range of subjects from associative indexing to the
> impact of Chinese cultural factors on the development of information
> systems.
>
> First, Isto Huvila asks where the information used by editors in Wikipedia
> comes from. The use of sources varies with the degree of activity shown by
> the editors (all of whom, of course, are volunteers) and most of the
> information is found on the Web, with literature known previously to the
> contributors being a major source. Possible, today, this is not too
> different from the resources used by authors generally.
>
> Next, Sylvain Cibangu, explores a topic that has been written about
> extensively in the past, providing a valuable review of the literature and
> suggesting that notions of global complexity can act '*as a metaphor for
> information science as a social science to address the pressing issues of
> our increasingly interconnected world*'.
>
> Charles Cole, Charles-Antoine Julien and John Leide, from McGill
> University, propose an associative index model for the results list of
> search engines based on Vannevar Bush's concept of *selection*, the
> associative mechanism by which our human brains identify the *likeness* of
> things.
>
> Next, Shannon Staley and her colleagues propose a standardised method for
> assessing an institution's library instruction programme, demonstrating that
> such a tool can provide valuable guidance on the development of library
> instruction.
>
> Finally. Christina Ling-hsing Chang, investigates ideas of power
> relationships and cultural factors that affect the development of
> information systems in China. Her results show,
>
> *how the need to maintain interpersonal harmony, guanxi, renqing and
> status hierarchy (unequal power distribution) characteristic of Chinese
> culture can lead to the incongruence of technological frames in the
> information system development processes*
>
> *In conclusion*
>
> In my last editorial I suggested that there might be people who would be
> interested in contributing to the management of the journal by acting as
> 'layout editors', that is, converting Word documents to the xhtml files we
> use. Well, there turned out to be only one such person! This doesn't make it
> possible for me to offer a conversion service, but if there are some who
> missed that original notice, who would like to participate, please get in
> touch <wilsontd at gmail.com>.
>
> It seems that the use of the journal continues to grow, although it is some
> time since I reported on such matters. However, a look at Google Analytics
> for the journal for the past year, shows that the most 'hit' papers are:
>
> •                Environmental scanning as information seeking and
> organizational learning, by Chun Wei Choo (with 25,492 unique views, 106
> citations in Google Scholar)
>
> •                An action research approach to curriculum development, by
> Phil Riding, Sue Fowell and Phil Levy, which is from volume 1 no. 1! (24,146
> unique views, 34 citations in Google Scholar)
>
> •                The nonsense of "knowledge management", by T.D. Wilson
> (23,310 unique views, 436 citations in Google Scholar)
>
> •                Five personality dimensions and their influence on
> information behaviour, by Jannica Heinström (22,111 unique views, 56
> citations in Google Scholar)
>
> •                Understanding knowledge management and information
> management: the need for an empirical perspective, by France Bouthillier and
> Kathleen Shearer (16,052 unique views, 88 citations in Google Scholar).
>
> You'll see that the 'well-hit' papers are, as we might expect, well-cited,
> so there's a lesson here: if you want your papers to be seen and cited,
> choose a true open access journal.
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Professor T.D. Wilson, PhD, PhD (h.c.),
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Publisher and Editor in Chief: Information Research: an international
> electronic journal
> Website - http://InformationR.net/ir/ <http://informationr.net/ir/>
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> E-mail: wilsontd at gmail.com
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> ASIS&T 73rd Annual Meeting:
> Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem
> October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA
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