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Information Research is a freely available, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. It was established in 1995 by Professor T.D. Wilson, Professor Emeritus of the University of Sheffield and subsequently Senior Professor, University of Borås. It is now published by the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden.

Information Research is now in its twenty-eighth year of existence and many things have changed over the past twenty-eight years: the journal was invented in 1995, when the Internet and the World Wide Web were in their infancy and the idea was to create a journal that covered the information disciplines in general. At the time that meant information science, librarianship, information systems, archives and records management, and information management. Those disciplines have now changed significantly and new information-related disciplines and sub-disciplines have emerged.

Consequently, we have revised the scope of the journal, with the result below. Within these themes we are interested in papers that are oriented towards the human information seeker and user. For example, we are not interested in the algorithms used in information systems, but in papers that deal with the impact of such systems on the information user, or in which users’ requirements are explored in the design of systems.

Business intelligence and data analytics; competitive intelligence; information security, cybersecurity, information economics, special libraries and information services.
Communication and media: scholarly communication; academic libraries; digital publishing; bibliometrics; webometrics; infometrics.
Cultural heritage: digital humanities, archives, records management, digital curation.
Data science: data mining; data sharing; big data; data visualisation.
Disciplinary applications: bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, health informatics; information in education.
Human-computer interaction; computer-mediated communication; computer-supported cooperative work; mobile computing.
Human information behaviour: usability, user experience; information sharing; user diversity; health information behaviour.
Information, digital and media literacy.
Information systems: AI & machine learning; information retrieval; search; information systems management;Internet and the World Wide Web: webometrics.
Knowledge organization: classification, thesaurus construction, manual and machine indexing, problems of terminology.
Society and information: public libraries and information services; social informatics; social media; social networks; computational social science; digital divide; digital libraries; information policy; security and privacy.