The Department of Library and Information Science, University of North Bengal is pleased to announce the launch of a new, open access journal, ALISALIS is an exciting online journal covering research activity in the broad area of applied information studies. The journal represents a positive move toward providing authors with a more convenient and efficient process to communicate research results to the global information science community. With the goal to promote and amplify the voices and ideas of the research community, ALIS will put your work at the heart of the conversations taking place in the scientific community today. A streamlined peer-review process, overseen by a leading panel of experts, ensures a fair and rapid publication experience. This process is then supplemented by a system of post-publication evaluation open to the entire Information science community, which allows an individual article to rise to prominence based on its own merits. In addition, all articles are published under a Creative Commons license enabling research results to be freely communicated and built upon while ensuring that copyright to the original work remains with the author. The fully open access format of the journal means that all articles will be made freely available worldwide immediately upon publication. We welcome your submissions via the journal's submission and peer review website at http://dlisnbu.ac.in/alis/ Please visit the homepage athttp://dlisnbu.ac.in/alis/  to learn more.