Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Crystal Fulton, Editor-in-Chief, is an Emeritus Professor (RTA) in the School of Information and Communication Studies (ICS) at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland.  Her research explores the interactions among people, information, and communication in social settings. She received her PhD and MLIS in Library and Information Science from The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Home page

Associate Editor

Dr. Wout Dillen, Associate Editor and Book Reviews Editor
Wout is a Senior Lecturer in LIS at the University of Borås, Sweden, with a focus on Knowledge Organization and Digital Environments. As part of the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), he co-coordinates the local node of Huminfra, the national Swedish DH infrastructure project. In 2015, he completed his PhD in Literature at the University of Antwerp, where his dissertation focussed on Digital Scholarly Editing. For this project, he also developed the Lexicon for Scholarly Editing, an Open Access, lexicographical resource. In 2016, he held an Experienced Researcher fellowship in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN ‘DiXiT’, where he investigated digitization processes at national libraries across Europe. Besides being the deputy editor of Information Research, he is also the General Editor of Variants, the journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), and on the editorial board of the Journal of the DH Benelux.

 

Editorial Committee

Dr. Gerd Berget, Editor, Eastern Asia
Gerd is Associate Professor in the Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. She received her doctoral degree in informatics at University of Oslo in 2016, addressing the information searching behaviour of people with dyslexia. Her research interests include interactive information retrieval, human computer interaction and user diversity. She has a particular interest in neurodiverse users, and people with functional differences. Gerd has more than 25 scientific publications in various journals, conference proceedings and books.

Dr. Amanda Cossham, Editor, Australasia and S.E. Asia, is the Research Development Leader, Learning Delivery, Open Polytechnic (and previously a Principal Academic Staff Member in Library and Information Studies). Her professional and research interests include knowledge organization, research methods, continuing professional development, community and small archives, and information management. Amanda is Regional Editor of Global Knowledge, Memory, and Communication, and a member of the Editorial Boards of the IFLA Journal and Digital Library Perspectives.

Dr. Jesse Dinneen, Editor, Middle East

Jesse is a Senior Lecturer in the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås. His research interests include information ethics and personal information management, especially issues surrounding AI and the appropriate handling of digital legacy. An ASIS&T Distinguished Member and frequent consultant on AI ethics, he has previously served on the editorial boards of ARIST, ACM Journal on Responsible Computing, Open Information Science, and Data Science & Informetrics. Before joining the University of Borås he held faculty positions in information science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Victoria University of Wellington.

Dr. Sunniva Evjen, Editor, Eastern Asia
Sunniva is an associate professor at the dept. of Archives, Library and Information Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University. Her research and research interests revolves around library research, particularly public library use and development, in addition to librarianship and the library profession, culture and library policy. She received her PhD from The Royal School of Library and Information Science (now Copenhagen University) in 2012.

Dr. J. Tuomas Harviainen, Joint Editor, Western Europe 
Tuomas is Professor of Information Studies and Interactive Media at Tampere University, Finland. His areas of interest include interorganizational information sharing, games as information and business phenomena, information practices on the Dark Web, strategy and service design, and the information behaviour of people in marginalized communities. Tuomas has published several books and over eighty peer reviewed works. He is a member of the editorial board of the Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies and edits the journal of the Finnish Association for Sexology.

Dr. Aylin Imeri, Editor, North America 
Aylin is a Research Associate at the Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine (Medical Faculty) at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Her areas of interest include digital health, health information behaviour, social media, and health information literacy. She holds a PhD in Information Science from the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. From 2022 to 2025 (November) she sat on the ASIS&T Board of Directors and is currently a Director At Large (Special Interest Groups).

Dr. Veronica Johansson Sydqvist, Editor, Eastern and Central Europe, is Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås, Sweden. She has previously served as Assistant Editor at the international peer-reviewed journal Human IT, and held held an assignment as academic advisor to the European Commission in the Horizon 2020 Commission Expert Group to advise on specific ethical issues raised by driverless mobility. Her research interests are focused on data as applied in visualisations and AI technology and related consequences from the perspectives of critical literacy, privacy and ethics, critical design and value-sensitive design.

Prof. Elena Maceviciute, Associate Editor and Book Reviews Editor Emeritus
Elena is Professor at the Swedish School of Library and Information Studies, University of Boras, Sweden and Professor in the Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Her research areas include reference work, information and communication needs, international and intercultural communication, and information management. In addition to her academic work, Elena has worked as a consultant to the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO, the Committee of Europe and others. She teaches distance courses in International Communication studies, co-edits the scholarly journal Knygotyra (Book Science), and is a member of the editorial board of The Serials Librarian (USA). She has published four books and almost sixty articles and has produced a number of translations of English language works (e.g., A. Conan-Doyle, The white company; P. Cornwell, The body of evidence; J. Fiske, Introduction to communication studies; and Blackwell's Encyclopedia of political science).

Dr. Francisco Javier Martinez Mendez, Editor, the Luso-Espanic Region
Javier is Professor of information technologies, Department of Information Sciences, University of Murcia, Spain. He received his PhD in Information Science from the University of Murcia in 2002, researching the effectiveness of information retrieval in web search engines. He has been director of the department, dean of the faculty, vice-rector of Quality Assessment, Culture and Communication and, most recently, he leads his research group on information technologies and management. He is also part of the Standing Committee of the ISIC conference. He has more than 50 scientific publications in journals, books and conference proceedings. His research interests include information retrieval, information seeking behavior and open access to information as an indispensable element for open science. Since 1995, he has been collaborating with Professor Rodríguez Muñoz in the UNESCO Chair of Information Management in Organizations.

Dr. Abebe Rorissa, Editor, India and Africa 
Abebe is a Professor and Director of the School of Information Sciences, College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before his current position, he worked in the United States, Ethiopia, Lesotho, and Namibia as an educator, researcher, administrator, and practitioner. He served as a consultant for academic institutions, national governments, and international organizations on various topics and projects. He has published extensively in leading international information science journals. He is the immediate Past President and was a member of the Board of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and its Executive Committee, and a recipient of the ASIS&T Watson Davis Award for Service, Distinguished Member, and SIG Member of the Year Awards.

Prof. Tom Wilson, Founder and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus 
Tom is Professor Emeritus of the University of Sheffield, and of the University of Borås. Tom's principal research areas are information seeking behaviour and information management, in which he has researched and published extensively. He is one of the most cited authors in the field of information behaviour. He founded Information Research in 1995 and self-published it until 2017, when he transferred ownership to the University of Borås. He acted as Editor-in-Chief throughout this period. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Gothenburg in 2005, and a second Honorary Doctorate by the University of Murcia, Spain, in 2010. He was the recipient in 2017 of the Award of Merit of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and in 2020 he was given the Jason Farradane Award by the UK e-information Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

 

Support Staff

Anton Carlander Borgström, Managing Editor
Anton is a lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås, Sweden. His specialization is in knowledge organization. Anton's background is as a public librarian.

Ty Nilsson, Editorial Assistant
Ty is a lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås, Sweden. Ty’s specialization is in teaching coding and programming in the Bachelor programme Digital information design and development.

 

Copy Editors

Joanna Adewunmi is a PhD student in the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include women studies, race and technology, information behavior, digital divide, and community informatics. Her current research explores the information behavior and STEM participation of Black women, and their experiences with the use of digital contexts. She is married with two kids.

Jennifer Brotherton is a Customer Services Librarian at University of Wolverhampton. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in History, Jennifer spent one year volunteering at public libraries, gaining experience to enrol on an MA in Information and Library Science at Loughborough University. Her final year dissertation was nominated for the Library and Information Research Group’s Student Award. She is a Chartered Member of CILIP and Secretary of ARLG WM (Academic & Research Libraries Group, West Midlands).

Alison Day is a Teaching Fellow at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Alison has just completed a PhD in Information Studies at Victoria University of Wellington and holds a PhD in History from the University of Auckland. Research interests include the queer histories and cultures of Aotearoa’s LGBTQ+ independent archives, as well as the complexities of implementing and remedying queer metadata and description within current structures.

Ian Haydock is Library Systems Manager at Keele University and has extensive experience in a variety of roles in UK universities. He holds a Diploma in Library & Information Science from Manchester Metropolitan University and is a Chartered Member of CILIP.

Lara Hierro holds a DLitt et Phil in Political Studies. Her research focuses on EU–Africa relations, particularly EU foreign policy and interregional frameworks. Her interests include power relations, policy discourse, and non-human animal protection policy.

Hannah Speight holds a Masters in Librarianship from the University of Sheffield, together with a Masters in Historical Research and a BA in History from Lancaster University. She has worked as a subject librarian at Coventry and Warwick universities and more recently in student skills development at Durham University. She is currently a full-time Mum.

Austin Stroud holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from Dominican University and is a lecturer in the MLIS program at Indiana University Indianapolis. A former public library director, his teaching and research focus on library technology, public libraries, artificial intelligence, and staff development.

Lucy Tsun works part-time at Auckland Libraries as a Council and Library Services Assistant and at Watercare as a Records Administrator for Asset Information. After graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic), Lucy worked as an electrical engineer in Auckland then as an automation software engineer in Manchester and Auckland. Later she graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Library and Information Studies). She is a registered member of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa. Her interests include community libraries, records management for local government, pay inequity, and the use of automation.

 

Editorial Board

Dr. David Allen, Professor of Information Management, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK

Dr. William Aspray, Senior Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA

Dr. Fredrik Åström, Docent (Reader/Associate Professor) in Information Studies, Lund University, Sweden

Dr. Jenny Bronstein, Professor and Head of Department, Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 

Dr. Simon Burnett, Professor, Institute for Management Governance and Society (IMaGeS), Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

Dr. Chun Wei Choo, Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

Dr. Charles Cole, Information Need Consultant. Colemining Inc., Montreal, Canada 

Dr. Andrew M. Cox, Senior Lecturer, The Information School, University of Sheffield, UK

Dr. Marija Dalbello, Professor, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

Dr. Judith Licea De Arenas, Professor, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad Autónoma de México. Ciudad Universitaria. México

Dr. Sanjica Faletar, Professor, Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies, University of Osijek, Croatia

Dr. Ina Fourie, Professor, Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Dr. Jonathan Furner, Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Dr. Elke Greifeneder, Professor, Institute for Library and Information Science, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Dr. Björn Hammarfelt, Docent (Associate Professor/Reader), the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), University of Borås, Sweden

Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, Regents Professor, Department of Information Science, University of North Texas, USA

Dr. Jannica Heinström, Associate Professor, Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

Dr. Morten Hertzum, Professor of Digital Technology and Welfare, Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark

Dr. Isto Huvila, Professor, Department of ALM, Uppsala University, Sweden

Dr. Victor Kaptelinin, Professor, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden

Dr. Masanori Koizumi, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Dr. Petros Kostagiolas, Assistant Professor, Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

Dr. Maja Krtalić, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Dr Zinaida Manžuch, Senior Consultant at RPA Europe, Vilnius, Lithuania

Dr. Hester Meyer, Research Fellow, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

Dr. Camilla Moring, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr Marek Nahotko, JU Professor, Institute of Information Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Dr. Bonnie Nardi, Professor Emerita, Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA

Dr. Gustaf Nelhans, Senior Lecturer, the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden

Dr. Melissa G. Ocepek, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

Dr Gillian Oliver, Associate Professor, Department of Human Centred Computing, Faculty of IT, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Nils Pharo, Professor, Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science, Oslo Metropolitan University

Dr. Ola Pilerot, Professor, the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden

Dr. Aleš Popovič, Professor, NEOMA Business School, Rouen, France

Dr. Jaya Raju, Professor and Head, Department of Knowledge & Information Stewardship, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Dr. Sri Devi Ravana, Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dr. José Vicente Rodríguez Muñoz, Professor Catedratico,  Information and Documentation Department, Faculty of Information Science, University of Murcia, Spain

Dr. Ronald Rousseau, Associate Professor at KHBO (an engineering college at Ostend, Belgium) and  K.U.Leuven (Flemish Catholic University of Louvain), Belgium

Dr. Ian Ruthven, Professor of Information Seeking and Retrieval, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK

Dr. Yukiko Sakai, Lecturer, School of Library and Information Science, Keio University, Japan

Dr. Ricardo César Gonçalves Sant’Ana, Professor, Departamento de Ciência da Informação, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Marília, Brazil

Dr. Elías Sanz-Casado, Professor and Head of the Department of Library and Information Studies, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

Dr. Reijo Savolainen, Professor Emeritus, Department of Information Studies,  University of Tampere, Finland

Dr Rimvydas Skyrius, Professor, Department of Economic Informatics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Dr. Jela Steinerová, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Dr. Shunsaku Tamara, Professor Emeritus, School of Library and Information Science, Keio University, Japan

Dr. Polona Vilar, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dr. Sirje Virkus, Professor of Information Science, Tallinn University, Estonia

Dr. Lin Wang, Distinguished Professor, Chinese Academy of Science and Education Evaluation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

Dr. Dietmar Wolfram, Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA