INFORMATICS STUDIES Invitation to Contribute Papers for Volume 1 (Issues 1-4) 2013 The rapid growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has thrown up enormous possibilities for managing knowledge resources. ICT has also great potential as a tool for learning and bridging the knowledge gap. But there are various challenges in this regard to countries like India using numerous languages and scripts. Harnessing ICT to the full in such regions need giving priority to research and development in areas like language technology? In these contexts Centre for Informatics Research and is launching a journal - *Informatics Studies *which* *will serve as a media for discussing the emerging trends in theory and application of Information Science. Each issue will deal with a different theme related to information service scenario. The journal will focus on –Information Infrastructures, Knowledge Management, Institutional Repositories, Digital Library/Archive, Cloud Computing Solutions for Libraries, Unicode, Multi-linguality and Interoperability Issues, Thesauri and Ontologies, Semantics, Metadata and Retrieval, Resources Discovery Solutions, Online Resources Usability Issues, Open Access Initiatives, OA –PMH, MARC 21, Consortia, IPR, Information Literacy, Training and education of Professionals, Performance Measurement and Metrics, Setting Service Quality Standards etc. Detailed list of topics to be covered by the journal is available at informaticsstudies.org We are happy to invite you to send your research paper for publication in the first volume of the journal to be published during 2013. For author guidelines and other details you can refer http://informaticsstudies.org or http://souparnika.org/is/ or contact : editor@informaticsstudies.org R. Raman Nair Co-ordinator. Informatics Studies Centre for Informatics Research and Development Trivandrum – 69043, India ramannair.r@gmail.com -- *Nikesh Narayanan * *Information Specialist* Virtus Group Co. W.L.L* Kuwait* Mobile: *+965 60903818* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.