Abstract: Information resources are important economic resources in the modern society, the allocation of which is critical for the efficient utilization of information resources. This paper analyzes and explores several transitions of information resources allocation research, i.e. transitions from focusing on allocating subjects to information users, from economic aspect to both economic and management aspects, from normative research to empirical study, from narrow sense information resources to general sense information resources.

Key words: Information resources, Resources allocation, Research, Transition