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The PDF of the full first issue: Volume 1, Number 1, June 2025 is now on-line at:

https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol1no1

A screenshot of the table of contents of the Insights Journal with four articles with arrows pointing at the names of Maryna Nazarovets and Nataliia Kaliuzhna, and a sign "Our OSL members Maryna and Nataliia".

We have here a very special new issue of "Insights: the UKSG journal" (https://insights.uksg.org/articles) with two articles I would like to highlight.

1. University journals: a semi-systematic literature review of trends, challenges and future research […]

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Lucky to witness #IRRJ editor-in-chief @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy signing a copy of the first edition of @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy for Ian Soboroff, author of the paper “Don’t Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments” in the volume.

#SIGIR2025

irrj.org/article/view...

Stack of IRRJ first issues and flyers on table

We are at #SIGIR2025 in Padua, Italy this week. Talk to our editors at the coffee breaks. #SIGIR

@egonw @crossref @opencitations That being said, I checked with our webmaster, Kay, and you can check the Crossref API as follows:

https://api.crossref.org/works/10.54195/irrj.21092

OA Switchboard

@egonw @crossref @opencitations We are also working on the https://oaswitchboard.org

@egonw @crossref How can we end up in @opencitations ?

@egonw @crossref @opencitations So, we send everything, title, abstract, etc. including the author's ORCID (if they confirmed via ORCID's API) and also all references in the paper.

@egonw @crossref @opencitations That being said, I checked with our webmaster, Kay, and you can check the Crossref API as follows:

https://api.crossref.org/works/10.54195/irrj.21092

@egonw @crossref @opencitations Good questions! We are still learning, and we only started now trying to get indexed by DOAJ and other scientific databases. For some you need at least a first issue, for many others you need more.

Djoerd Hiemstra proudly holding a copy of the first issue

Never seen our editor in chief, Djoerd Hiemstra, more happy than today, holding a copy of the first issue of #IRRJ

Published at #IRRJ: " A survey of Inclusive Information Access " byYue Zheng, Haiming Liu, Mike Wald #InclusiveInformationAccess, #InformationRetrieval, #DigitalDivide

https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.21092

Information Retrieval Research

@DrPen We did and we love them too! at: http://irrj.org

The old icons for atom, rss 1 and rss 2

I used to love these icons. Can we do them more. Im going to add them to my site today

#atom #rss #feeds #icons

An editorial in _Microbial Biotechnology_ argues that journals aiming to maximize the number of papers published, in part to maximize #APCs, are "promoting an insidious degradation of rigour and quality standards of reviewing–editing practices. Such predatory practices result in the systematic […]

The PDF of the full first issue: Volume 1, Number 1, June 2025 is now on-line at:

https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol1no1

Published at #IRRJ: "Graph Embeddings to Empower Entity Retrieval" by Emma J. Gerritse, Faegheh Hasibi, and Arjen P. de Vries:

https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19877

Published at #IRRJ: " Annotative Indexing" by Charles Clarke. #Search, #Indexing, #InvertedIndexes, #MinimalIintervalSemantics

https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19910

Published at #IRRJ: "Supporting Evidence-Based Medicine by Finding Both Relevant and Significant Works" by Sameh Frihat and Norbert Fuhr. #MedicalDocumentFacade, #LoE, #LevelOfEvidence, #EvidenceBasedMedicine

https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19784

Call For Papers: 3rd ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific (SIGIR-AP 2025) SIGIR-AP 2025 (December 7–10, 2025 | Xi’an, China) The 3rd ACM SIGIR Asia-Pacific Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR-AP 2025) invites submissions of high-quality research papers in all […]

#CFP Call for papers for the 2nd issue of IRRJ
Second Call for Papers IRRJ: Information Retrieval Research Journal Volume 1, Issue 2, to be published end of 2025. The Information Retrieval Research Journal (IRRJ) is an open access journal that...

https://irrj.org/second-call-for-papers

Published at #IRRJ: "Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures" by Bhaskar Mitra

https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19654

Submit your #IRRJ paper for the second issue: https://irrj.org//second-call-for-papers

Today the editorial board of _Mathematical Logic Quarterly_ (pub'd by @Wiley) resigned and launched a new #DiamondOA journal on the same topics.
https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/ruecktritt-des-mlq-editorial-teams

See their open letter announcing their resignations and plans for […]

Desk with IRRJ flyer, ECIR program booklet, and maps of Lucca

We are at #ECIR2025 this week! Get the flyer and talk to our editors during the coffee breaks.

Paper accepted at #SIGIR2025, but you had a hard time keeping the page limit? Congratulations, you can now submit an extended version with 50% "new" material to #IRRJ!

https://irrj.org/second-call-for-papers

Published at #IRRJ: "Don't Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments" by Ian Soboroff. #evaluation #relevance #llm https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19625

Followers from #BlueSky: we will follow you back, but you have to bridge your account by following: https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy

Vanity metrics on #Mastodon are still going faster than #BlueSky:

IRRJ followers on Bluesky: 43 🦋
IRRJ followers on Mastodon: 113 🐘

Reposts welcome to reach more people!

The publication is now available on the @IRRJ.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy journal website: irrj.org/article/view...