Year: 1995
Type: editorial
Abstract: This quarter sees the retirement of Anne Leeming as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal.Anne took on the Journal together with the Chair of the Association for Informational Technology in early 1989.She was responsible for setting the new Journal policy and has overseen radical changes to the way the Journal looks, the refereeing policy, and its content.The Journal is now recognized as one of the leading European journals in its field.Both the Journal and the Association have much to thank Anne for, in taking on and working at tasks that looked difficult but needed to be done.I would also like to thank Anne personally for asking me to work with her and take on the executive editor role, which, together with her role, has been both taxing and stimulating as we have endeavoured to move the Journal on over the last six years.As mentioned in last quarter's editorial, a number of developments to build the Journal's service are in preparation.The Journal has operated with a 15% acceptance rate for refereed papers in the last three years and this was only achieved by a considerable amount of administration.The Journal is in the process of extending the Executive Editorial team to several Editors, each one responsible for a region.Leslie Willcocks will operate as the Executive Editor of the Journal and all papers should continue to be submitted to him in the first instance through the Templeton College, Oxford editorial address.We have seen a big expansion in the number of papers received, and resultant delays in the refereeing and acceptance/rejection process.These delays need to be minimized if the published articles are to remain current and topical in a very fast moving field.From September 1995 we are going to aim for a maximum turnaround time of four months for all submitted papers.We are also looking to expand the size of the Journal and are reassessing the policy of the Journal in terms of subject coverage.Future editorials will keep readers abreast of the changes as they happen.
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Language: Spanish
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4236476101