The Information Bulletin on Variable Stars is a bulletin of the Commissions 27 and 42 of the International Astronomical Union, published by the Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary. It is a fully peer reviewed express journal, fully Open Access, indexed by ADS, CDS, Scopus, archived in ADS and MTA REAL-J. The editors are: L. Molnar, E. Plachy, R. Szabo, L. Szabados. The chairman of the Editorial board is B. Gaensicke. Technical editor: A. Holl.
The electronic IBVS was supported by grants from the Hungarian National Information Infrastructure Development Program (NIIF), the Open Society Institute, and the Ministry of Informatics and Communication (IHM). The work of Emese Plachy is supported by the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Social Fund in the framework of TÁMOP 4.2.4.A/2-11-1-2012-0001 "National Excellence Program".