Editorial

Volume 2. Number 1.

Donald G. Perrin
 

The editors and publisher thank 120 authors for 75 articles published in 2004. 49 articles came from the United States, and 26 articles came from 13 other countries (**boldface in the table below.) Readership grew to about 10,000 unique visitors each month by year’s end. In the fourth quarter, there were over 30,364 visits from 142 countries. Fifty or more visits by country in the fourth quarter are tabulated below

                             **Bold face countries provided articles for the Journal in 2004

In the 271 days for which we have records, the Journal logged approximately 309,000 hits representing 93,000 page views (one page view is an entire article, editorial, or index page). In addition, Acrobat files of the entire journal were accessed 21,662 times.

The Google search engine has 1518 references to IJITDL articles prior to publication of the January 2005 issue.

Goals for 2005 are as follows:

1. Academic excellence

2. Improve technical quality and layout

3. Add news and resource links to the home page

4. Recruit a higher percentage of authors from foreign (non-U.S.) countries

5. Expand the number of countries represented by 100%

6. Expand readership, page views and visits by 100%

7. Build the Journal based on assessed needs and interests of readers and authors

You are invited to forward your comments and ideas to editor@itdl.org.