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Research and mentorship

Research and mentorship
The institute conducts and reports research in all the broad areas of information and knowledge management. Some of the services it offers include hosting of specialized research forums for doctoral candidates in information and knowledge management; conducting academic research in areas of interest in information and knowledge management; engaging the relevant policy formulation and implementation stakeholders by providing research evidence for policy issues and trends; publishing scholarly journals of information and knowledge management; and mentoring budding information and knowledge management researchers through relevant young professional programmes.
The institute currently publishes the Regional Journal of Information and Knowledge Management. This is a biannual open access scholarly journal. All the articles published in the journal are double blind peer reviewed by eminent information and knowledge management scholars. One special print edition is published annually. The special editions publish the most popular articles of the year.