ProInflow is a peer-reviewed electronic journal covering information and library sciences that was established in 2009. It focuses on interdisciplinary topics related to information science and is targeted towards anyone interested in the field, including librarians, researchers, and students. It is published twice per year and includes peer-reviewed research papers as well as non-reviewed book reviews and profiles of professionals in the field. The journal aims to increase its quality, reputation, and readership by pursuing database inclusion and international cooperation.

1. ProInflow:
Journal for Information Sciences
Bc. Adam Vtípil

2. Introducing ProInflow: in general
● peer-reviewed periodical concerning
information and library sciences
● originally established as a student project in
2009 under the supervision of Division of
Information and Library Studies at the Masaryk
University in Brno in the Czech Republic
● electronic periodical coming out twice a year

3. Introducing ProInflow: scope
● focus on information sciences
● interdisciplinary concept – various areas of
information science overlapping into other
areas - librarianship, information systems,
philosophy, cognitive sciences, ethics etc.
st
●
1 issue: Interdisciplinary cooperation in the
field of information and library sciences
nd
●
2 issue: Competitive intelligence
●
3rd issue: Information literacy and education

4. Introducing ProInflow: target
audience
● anyone interested in information science,
librarianship and closely related fields
● librarians, researchers, education professionals,
students ...

5. People behind the scenes
Editorial board:
● prof. Andrew Lass, M.A., Ph.D.
● prof. Ing. Zdeněk Molnár, CSc.
● doc. PhDr. Jela Steinerová, Ph.D.
● doc. Ing. Martin Šperka, Ph.D.
● doc. PhDr. Rudolf Vlasák
● PhDr. Jindra Planková, Ph.D.
● PhDr. Michal Lorenz
● Mgr. Marek Timko, Ph.D.

6. People behind the scenes
● Chief editor
● Mgr. Ladislava Suchá
● Editorial staff
● Bc. Simona Chudobová
● Bc. Jaroslava Králová
● Bc. Simona Stolařová
● Bc. Tibor Uhrín
● Bc. Šimon Vích
● Bc. Adam Vtípil

7. ProInflow's contents
● Fundamental part: peer-reviewed section –
scholarly papers
● non-reviewed section:
● translation of a foreign scholarly paper
● book review
● curiosities in the field
● personalities in the field

8. Peer-review system in the Czech
Republic
● Centralized journal registry - The Registry of
Peer-Reviewed Periodicals
● periodicals, that do not have a Thomson
Scientific Impact Factor (Web of Science
database) assigned
● formed in 2008
● now 500+ periodicals included
● includes only a few journals in the field of
library and information sciences

9. The Registry of Peer-reviewed
Periodicals
Admission conditions:
● composition of editorial board
● ISSN code assigned
● english abstracts for all scientific papers
● percentage of original scholarly content
● and many more...
Why apply:
● quality indicator
● matter of prestige

10. Peer-review procedure
● bilateral anonymity
● Reviewers evaluate:
● level of author's contribution
● language, structure, reasoning
● citations
● originality
● topicality
● recommend to: accept without changes/with minor
changes/with major changes/not accept

11. Free content
Open Access ideology
● full content available for free over the internet
● ProInflow enlisted in the Directory of Open Access
Journals
● Creative Commons: Attribution license

12. Numbers and Blunders
Potential author response rate
● ProInflow published copmared to final number
two issues so far, of published papers
third one nearing
50
45
completion 40 Adressed
potential
authors
winning potential
35
● Responded
30 Published
authors to publish in 25
peer-
reviewed
papers
our newly formed 20
journal turned out to
15
10
be extremly difficult 5
0

13. Numbers and Blunders
Overdue submissions
and deadline
stretching – road to
hell?

14. Numbers and Blunders
„The
Appearance-
saving
Syndrome“

15. Plans for the future
● database enlisting –
SCOPUS, ERIH
● cooperation with CASLIN
conference
● increase quality and boost
reputation
● get internationl contacts
● expand number of journal
sections
● increase number of
readers

16. We are always on the lookout for authors!
visit ProInflow at www.proinflow.cz
or
contact us at casopis_IV@inflow.cz.