INFORMS SCHOLARLY JOURNALS MOVE TO HIGHWIRE PRESS

All 12 INFORMS journals and online content, as well as ordering information, can be viewed at www.informs.org and http://www.informs.org/Pubs. Early next year, INFORMS plans to introduce a new archival product that will make available back issues of INFORMS journals, some of them dating back to 1952.

“INFORMS made the decision to work with HighWire Press because of HighWire’s growing mastery in hosting scholarly journals,” said Mark Doherty, Executive Director of INFORMS.

HighWire Press has established itself as an industry leader in online hosting services, earning the 2003 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Award for "Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing." Known for setting the bar for online functionality and usability as well as for the stability and robustness of its site, HighWire's array of features — advanced alerting options (including eTOCs, author and keywords from the full text of articles as they are published online), reference linking (including toll-free access to cited references within articles hosted in any journal in HighWire's vast collection), RSS feeds, enhanced search features and management tools — are now available to INFORMS institutional and library subscribers.

INFORMS’ respected journals, including those with high ISI ranks, are

- Decision Analysis

- Information Systems Research

- INFORMS Journal on Computing

- Interfaces

- Management Science

- Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

- Marketing Science

- Mathematics of Operations Research

- Operations Research

- Organization Science

- Transportation Science

INFORMS also publishes the open access journal INFORMS Transactions on Education (http://ite.pubs.informs.org/)

INFORMS journals are strongly cited in Journal Citation Reports, an industry source. In the JCR subject category “operations research and management science,” three journals ranked in the top ten, with INFORMS Journal on Computing and Management Science ranking 1 and 2, respectively.

The special MBA issue published by Business Week includes three INFORMS journals in its list of 20 top academic journals that are used to evaluate business school programs. The three INFORMS journals on the Business Week list for intellectual capital development are the flagship journals Operations Research and Management Science, and Information Systems Research. Financial Times includes five INFORMS journals in its list of academic journals used to evaluate MBA programs.

Operations research (O.R.) is the discipline of applying advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions.

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is an international scientific society with 10,000 members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, financial engineering, and telecommunications. The INFORMS website is www.informs.org. More information about operations research is at www.scienceofbetter.org.

HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, is a not-for-profit electronic journal developing and hosting service, producing the definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. In its 11 years of operation, HighWire has partnered with a community of influential societies, university presses and other scholarly publishers to create a vast database of the some of the finest, fully searchable research, medical and social science literature available on the Internet. Visit HighWire Press at www.highwire.org.

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