The Informing Science Institute: The Informing System of a Transdiscipline

The Informing Science Institute (ISI) is an informing system, designed using informing science principles, for the express purpose of informing researchers who study problems related to informing. The ISI provides several informing channels, including peer reviewed journals, conferences, books, and outreach activities. The ISI seeks to resonate with university researchers to provide rigorous and relevant information about informing research. The ISI prints and electronically publishes peer reviewed scientific literature concerning the transdiscipline of informing science at no charge to the authors or readers, with open access for all, in eight academic journals. This paper discusses what informing science is, the need for a transdiscipline, the channels of the ISI informing system, and describes the clients of the ISI. This paper also analyzes the authors, institutions, and countries of origin for every ISI paper published between 1998 and 2009, as well as reporting interviews with the Editor-In-Chiefs of each ISI journal.