Journal updates

We are recruiting new Editorial Board Members.

We are excited to announce that Information Retrieval Journal has now become a fully open access (OA) journal as of 1 January 2024 and moved into our Discover series as Discover Computing. We will now only publish articles as Open Access, meaning content will be freely available to readers worldwide, enabling the widest possible dissemination and reuse. 

Springer Nature is committed to ensuring our portfolios serve and meet the evolving needs of the research community and that quality research is read and disseminated as widely as possible. Transforming Information Retrieval Journal to Discover Computing and full OA reflects our ongoing commitment (this opens in a new tab) to driving the transition to open research, and providing researchers with OA publication venues that can amplify their research and enable compliance with funder and institutional OA requirements, while continuing to deliver a high level of author service. See our FAQs journal update for further information.

Looking to publish in a Discover journal? Springer Nature provides interactive tutorials to help you as an author write the best article possible by providing points to consider, from your background reading and study design to manuscript structuring and figure preparation. Find out more (this opens in a new tab). 

In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Computing. By opting in to this service, you will be able to:

• Showcase your work to funders and others with a citable preprint while it is under review 
• Track the status of your manuscript through the peer review process on a more granular level 
• Benefit from early sharing, such as more collaboration opportunities and earlier citations.

See the full range of benefits of In Review and how to opt-in  (this opens in a new tab)

See what the In Review platform looks like  (this opens in a new tab)

The journal publishes guest-edited Topical Collections on emerging hot topics of relevance to all aspects of computer science. Our Topical Collections allow readers to quickly identify research on subject areas of particular interest to them.

Find out more (this opens in a new tab) about the Discover community of fully open access journals.