Informatics Studies is a journal promoted by Centre for Informatics Research and Development (CIRD) as a platform for discussing the emerging trends in theory and application of Information Science. Now it is in its fourth year of publication.
The journal focuses on –Information Infrastructures, Information Economics, Knowledge Management (KM), Digital Library/Archive, Unicode, Multi-linguality and Interoperability Issues, Thesauri and Ontologies, Semantics, Metadata and Retrieval, Resources Discovery Solutions, Open Access Initiatives, e-publishing, IPR, Setting Service Quality Standards, Bioinformatics, Development Informatics, Community Informatics, Social Informatics, Environmental Informatics, Medical Informatics, Computational Linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary and international perspectives on the above areas.
ICT has thrown up enormous possibilities for managing knowledge resources and narrowing the digital divide. But challenges exist for countries like India using numerous languages and scripts to harness these possibilities. Such regions need to give priority to research and development in areas like language technology. Informatics Studies concentrates on such areas of concern to Asian and African countries.

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Informatics Studies Volume 4 Issue 2 (April- March 2017) is a special issue on Eugene Garfield: Informatician Nonpareil. Authors of the earlier volumes include: Anjali Gulati; Antonella De Robbio; Bino Jose; Chithra, J S; Egbert de Smet; Ernest J Mann; Ernesto Spinak; Gupta, B M; Hussain, K H; Imma Subirats Coll, Jasimudeen S; Jayapradeep, M; John Brownlee; Jon Gregson; Nason Bimbe; Patrick R Penland; Rachel Playforth; Rajendran, K; Ram Awatar Ojha; Rajendran, K; Ramina Mukundan; Ritu Gupta; Sufian Ahmed; and Tomy Varghese; Vishnu V A.

We are happy to invite research papers for publication in Informatics Studies Volume 4(4) to be published October 2017. Detailed list of topics to be covered by the journal, and author guidelines are available at informaticsstudies.in. Papers can be submitted for the issue up to 1st September 2017. Papers can be uploaded at informaticsstudies.in or can be send to: editor@informaticsstudies.in as MS Word file attaché as per standards prescribed in the journal website.

Informatics Studies is a peer-reviewed journal with ISSN: 2320-530x.

Contact Address: R. Raman Nair, Editor, Informatics Studies, Centre for Informatics Research and Development, Trivandrum – 69043, India. E-mail: ramannair.r@gmail.com