Abstract: The Research on Information Resources and IRM (Information Resource Management) , is one of the most important fields for the Information Economics. As the modern IT used wider and deeper in whole society and economy, it will be more important to clear relevant practice and theoretical issues. It is not only from theoretical interest, but also from the practical requirement. According to our opinions, there are four topics should be paid more attention currently. They are: basic concepts of the information resource; measurement and evaluation of the information resource; mechanism and approaches for information resource management; social and economic roles of the information resource. Because the research at this field is still at the starting stage, it’s important to uphold diversities and pay more attention on practice.

Key words: Information resource, IRM (information resource management), Information economics, Infromatilization