The UKSG, an international organisation that seeks to connect the knowledge community, has announced a new name and new joint editors for its flagship journal, Serials: connecting the information community. The journal will now be called Insights: connecting the knowledge community. The new name was chosen from 125 submissions to a competition for UKSG members, won by Jane Harvell, Head of Academic Services at the University of Sussex Library. The title change will take effect from volume 25, 2012.
Additionally, the organisation has also announced the appointment of new editors, Lorraine Estelle, Chief Executive of JISC Collections, and Steve Sharp, Resource Acquisition Team Leader at the University of Leeds. Estelle and Sharp will co-edit the journal from volume 24, 2011 and have already delivered their first issue (online now).
This first issue under the new editors helps to demonstrate the rationale for renaming the journal. It includes coverage of issues as diverse as usage statistics, open data, e-books and image collections, along with an innovative 'day in the life' feature drawn entirely from Twitter postings.
The organisation will work with members and suppliers throughout the remainder of 2011 to ensure a smooth transition to the new title.
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