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The new issue, Volume 11 no. 3, of Information Research is now available at
http://InformationR.net/ir/
An extract from the Editorial:
...one paper is of special interest, Terrence A. Brooks's, 'No bad Web pages'.
After the paper had been refereed and the changes had been made, I suggested to
the author that the paper had a structure, and a topic, that made it an ideal
paper to experiment with the concept of 'screen rhetoric'; that is, the design
of Web pages to reflect the fact that they are viewed on screen, rather than
being read on paper. Terry seized upon this idea with enthusiasm and, using his
Javascript skills, has produced a paper which the reader moves through screen
by screen, rather than by scrolling down the page. If you want to see the paper
as a whole or to print it out, just click on the Print Version link at the top
of the page. Of course, this is only one way of implementing the idea: Terry
already has ideas on other ways of doing it and we are engaged, in effect, in a
continuing experiment into what the scientific paper should look like on screen
in the 21st Century. We'd like you to play with the paper - move around it -
tell us what you like and what you don't like and what you would do to improve
it, or even how you would do it completely differently to achieve a similar
result! I shall take all comments, favourable and unfavourable, and put them on
a page linked to the paper. We hope to give other papers the 'screen rhetoric'
treatment, in different ways, so if you have a paper that you would like us to
experiment with, let us know. Both Terry and I will be very interested to have
your feedback on the way this paper is presented.
Another 'special interest' paper is the first in a series of Case Studies, which
I hope will appear issue by issue over the next year or so. The topic,
appropriately, is open access publishing, and the case studies may report on
specific journals, aids to open access publishing, alternative modes of open
access, in fact, anything to do with the subject that can be presented in the
form of a case study. This idea was suggested by Bo-Christer Björk, so it is
appropriate that the first is by himself and Ziga Turk, describing the history
and present status of ITcon, The Electronic Journal of Information Technology
in Construction. If you would like to contribute to the series, please let
either Bo-Christer or myself know.
Finally, among the 'specials' is a paper by Elena Macevičiūtė on the development
of information needs research in Russia and Lithuania and a comparison with
parallel developments in the West. I single this one out because this is a
subject which, as far as I am aware, has not been examined before. As Elena's
paper shows, sometimes developments in the East were ahead of those in the
West, sometimes the other way round, but there is very little evidence, until
recently, of the exchange of ideas between East and West. Things are changing,
but this retrospective study demonstrates that the 'language barrier' is real,
and has probably limited the development of information behaviour research over
the past forty years.
Kind regards,
Professor Tom Wilson, PhD, Hon.Ph.D.,
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Information Research: an international electronic journal
Website: http://InformationR.net/
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