Making the changes

European Journal of Information Systems (2006) 15, 525–526. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000655 In my editorial in the first issue of this year’s volume of the European Journal of Information Systems, I introduced two changes. The first was to move to six issues a year because as I said ‘the continuing success of the journal enables us to offer our readers increases in both the quality and number of papers’. The second change was that more material would appear in special issues or sections, which would present quality articles brought together by dedicated specialists in the topic. So, did we make the changes? This, the sixth and final issue of the 2006 Volume of the European Journal of Information Systems has over 100 pages more than last year’s Volume 14, which itself was a special Volume with five issues instead of the regular four per volume previously. We have had no problem filling six issues with quality material; in fact we have gone nearly 10% over target on published pages even though the target itself was raised 20% over last year. The following table shows more clearly the changing impact of the European Journal of Information Systems in terms of volume of material published. So we made this change as can be seen.