IN REVIEW: Another Option for Getting Published.

Each issue of The Information Management Journal includes reviews of various technical and professional resources. These reviews comprise the "In Review" department.

"In Review" provides readers useful, descriptive, informative, objective, and balanced evaluations of new and currently available knowledge, technology, and professional development resources of interest to information and records management professionals. The department is diverse in both the nature and variety of materials reviewed.

The resources reviewed include a wide variety of tools that focus on the management of records, information, and knowledge. Included in this focus is the application of key management techniques that support information and records management disciplines (e.g., cost-benefit studies, cost analyses, project management, budgeting).

Following is a list of resources that could be appropriate for review in the Journal:

* Published material, which includes books, technical reports, videos, white papers, industry studies, guides, and trade publications; "books" may include monographs (a book-length study of a single subject) and reference books (volumes not meant to be read cover to cover, such as dictionaries and encyclopedias)

* Products, including software, online databases, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and equipment

* Electronic reference sites, which include Web sites and list services

Multiple tools, such as software, may be addressed comparatively within the same review. This approach might yield a review that examines the records retention feature of several products. An example of this could be multiple reviews that each look at the records retention feature of several different information management software products.

Accuracy, balance, and fairness are important elements of reviews. Each review should offer a balance of positive and negative perspectives.

Content and Style of Reviews

While there is sufficient room for creativity by the contributor, the reviews in the Journal are micro-essays that are standard in length (650-750 words), structure, and quality. The reviews add value to the resources being discussed by evaluating them within the information and records management context.

Each review submitted must meet the Journal's editorial standards for objectivity, balance, and clarity. All reviews are subject to the same editing and style rules as apply to full-length manuscripts submitted to the Journal.

In order to provide readers a consistent approach...