Social Science Information Studies ( 1983)) 3 (3)

EDITORIAL

We embark upon Volume 3 ofSocial Science Information Studies with a fair degree of optimism for the future. The journal is now becoming much more widely known and appears to have established itself as a worthy periodical remarkably quickly.

Of course, this is a subjective statement, but it is one which is borne out by a number of significant facts: SSZS papers now appear in other people’s citations; the journal’s contents page now appears in Current Contents; and unsolicited contributions come from many different countries. In other words, the hard work of getting the journal ‘off the ground’ seems to be paying off.

So far as the future of the journal in terms of coverage is concerned we hope to continue the mixture as before, with information scientists and social scientists contributing in (approximately) equal weight, with papers on the traditional concerns of librarians mixing with those on data archives and usage or human consequences of information technology.

On a sadder note I have to report the death of two good personal friends who were highly supportive of this venture from the start: Michael Brenner who contributed book reviews and a paper in Volume 1 No. 3 of the journal, and Povl Timmerman of the Royal Danish School of Librarianship whose work was the subject ofan essay review by G. W. Beattie in Volume 1 No. 2. Both were enthusiasts and creative individuals of the kind it is difficult to replace: I shall miss them both greatly.

Tom Wilson

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