A new issue of Information Research is now available at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/ircont.html
This is the...
Editorial
Information Research continues to develop. The journal
is now published in association with three other
Departments of Information Studies and related
disciplines: the Department of Information Studies at
the University of Tampere, Finland, where Dr. Reijo
Savolainen is Regional Editor for the Nordic countries;
the Faculty of Communication at the University of
Vilnius, with Dr. Elena Maceviciute as Regional Editor
for Central and Eastern Europe; and the School of
Library and Information Sciences at the University of
North Texas, where Dr. Amanda Spink will act as the
Regional Editor for North America. The new Regional
Editors will be eager to hear from colleagues wishing to
submit papers for refereeing, or as Working Papers,
which are unrefereed. The three Regional Editors,
together with the Editor and others, will act as the
Board of Referees for the journal. In this issue we have
another new feature - the papers submitted to the
Doctoral Workshop which was held as part of the second
international conference on Information Seeking in
Context at Sheffield in August. The papers were not
intended to be fully finished scholarly products, but
simply to provide the basis for small group seminars
during the Workshop - they are, therefore, "Working
Papers" in a very real sense.
In this issue we have our usual mix of refereed and
unrefereed papers: Carol Marlow and Hugh Preston of the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, present a refereed
paper on the role of Healthcare Resource Groups in the
UK National Health Service in allocating resources for
the treatment of chronic diseases, specifically, in this
instance, cancer. This paper looks at an information
management issue of major relevance to a very large
organization (the biggest single employer in the UK),
using patient record data as the basis for decision
making.
Next Amanda Spink and Judy Bateman of the University of
North Texas, together with Major Bernard Janson of the
US Military Academy report on a study of the users of
the EXCITE search engine on the World Wide Web - 357
people responded to an on-line questionnaire that was
made available at the EXCITE Web-site and the analysis
reveals that they employed very simple search strategies
and carried out successive searches on the same topic.
Finally, we have a Working Paper from Kathryn Ray and
Joan Day on Student attitudes towards electronic
information resources, based on work carried out as part
of the IMPEL project at the University of Northumbria at
Newcastle, UK.
You will see that our contents page is now divided into
Refereed Papers and Working Papers - contributors may
opt to publish in either section.
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Professor Tom Wilson, Ph.D.
Research Professor in Information Management
Department of Information Studies
University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K.
Tel. +44-114-222-2631 Fax. +44-114-278-0300
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/I-M/is/lecturer/tom1.html
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"Abandon learning and you will be free from trouble and distress." Lao Tze
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