Dear LIS Members,

It is known to us that ICT has great potential as a tool for learning and bridging the knowledge gap. The rapid growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has thrown up enormous possibilities for managing knowledge resources. However, there are many challenges for harnessing its power in countries like India where many languages and scripts are used necessitating priority to research and development in areas like language technology.

The journal Informatics Studies promoted by Centre for Informatics Research gives stress to such areas of concern to Asian and African countries, The journal also focus on Information Infrastructures, Knowledge Management, Institutional Repositories, Digital Library/Archive, Cloud Computing Solutions for Libraries, Unicode, Multi-lingual and Interoperability Issues, Thesauri and Ontology, Semantics, Metadata and Retrieval, Resources Discovery Solutions, Online Resources Usability Issues, Open Access Initiatives, OAI –PMH, MARC 21, Consortia, IPR, Information Literacy, Training and education of Professionals, Performance Measurement and Metrics, Setting Service Quality Standards etc. The journal is in its eighth year of publication and Volume 8.1 published on 1^st January 2021 is accessible at: informaticsstudies.org. Volume 8.2 is to be published on 1^st April 2021

We invite papers for publication in the journal from Volume 8.2 onwards. Papers can be submitted online by uploading it in the journal site or by e-mail as MS Word file attached.

For author guidelines and other details please refer https: informaticsstudies.org

or contact: informaticsstudies@gmail.com

Editor,

Informatics Studies

Centre for Informatics Research and Development

Trivandrum – 69043, India