BIT is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available at no cost to the user or the institution. The scope of the journal includes empirical and theoretical articles relating to all aspects of information science, engineering and technology. It focuses on the biggest breakthroughs in the technology arena, with particular concentration on accelerating principles, concepts and applications, informatics and cultural informatics, high-performance computing, and reports on the continuous evolution of information science and technology as a whole.