The first decade
Arthur W. Elias · Information Services & Use · 1990
With this issue, Information Service & Use completes its tenth year of publication.On behalf of Tony Cawkell, Cor van de Weteringh and myself, I want to thank our readers for their many courtesies and cooperation during the formative years of the journal.It is also an appropriate time to acknowledge the support of Elsevier and the many invisible staff members who do so much to bring our messages to you.Over the years we have received consistent support from all areas of the organization.Readers may be interested to know of the contributions of our Editorial Advisory Board.In addition to their roles in procuring good quality manuscripts, they have served as proponents of the special role that ISU has attempted to fill in the information science literature.In 1981 we proposed that the journal be "an information technology oriented publication with a wide scope of subject matters."Further, we recorded, "both audience and authorship should be international aimed at leaders in information management and applications."These objectives were to be treated "not only in general but also in specific contexts; applications to business and scientific fields will be sought so that a balanced view is offered to the reader."A cursory review of the first ten volumes shows that we have published over 200 papers coming from 18 countries.These include Australia,