One of the great values of open access online journals is that one doesn't need to be a professional in a specialized field to look in on what those professionals have to say and to learn about new perspectives and new research. Information Research should be of value to anyone who has an interest in the field of finding and sharing online academic resources. I found the October 2007 issue to contain a number of worthwhile articles, including research on web browsing, benchmarking information literacy, and advanced efforts at webified markup. (See the second quotation below.) ____JH
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"Information Research, is an open access, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. It is privately published and edited by Professor T.D. Wilson. It is hosted, and given technical support, by Lund University Libraries, Sweden. Editorial support is provided by the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Gothenburg University and Högskolan i Borås."
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"'Webify' signals a cultural shift: stop thinking that you can control the future use of your Web content ('my Web document is a finished product'), and start building Web resources designed to facilitate ad hoc, unpredictable future uses ('my Web document is merely input to somebody else's process'). The challenge has been to design metadata that is easy for the non-technical scholar to construct, is expressive enough to declare the provenance and relationship of resources; and perhaps most importantly, reflects standard information architecture protocols (i.e., XML) so that conventional application programs (i.e., there are many XML editors) can harvest the metadata and re-purpose your Web content."
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