It is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the action of learning something new about a particular topic. For example: "I wanted to make the best decision possible, so I took the time to inform myself about the different options."
How might I inform myself better about this growing sense of unease regarding the president's race being a primary consideration – acknowledged or unacknowledged – in the right wing's intransigence?
And in choosing the word 'choose,' I did not inform myself of the deeper, more subtle meanings -- which I now see clearly".
As an American working in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, I tried to fully inform myself by reading dozens of books about both conflicts.
I have been studying law for much time on my own, so it didn't take very long for me to inform myself about the process of applying for asylum.
And, in response to a question from William Safire, the language authority and New York Times columnist, about choice in matters of privacy, Mr. Gore replied: "Along with roughly 270 million other Americans, I use words more carelessly than Bill Safire, and in choosing the word 'choose,' I did not inform myself of the deeper, more subtle meanings, which I can now see clearly".
I'd rather see people take the plunge and try innovating and then have to study up because, "Oh my God! I'd better inform myself, because I need to arm myself with knowledge" than try to deduce from the history of the past what should be done now.
In the public library, which, not incidentally, had a well-kept men's room, I read the daily papers as if informing myself of life on another planet.
But while I honestly had only good intentions, I was not fully informed myself as to the consequences of what I was doing might be for others.
"I didn't know about milking cows but I quickly informed myself and asked to be on the Agriculture Committee," Ms. Gillibrand said in an interview late Sunday.
"We did not open up contract negotiations with Cris Carter until after Oronde informed myself and coach on Saturday that he was going to elect to have surgery," the Dolphins' senior vice president, Rick Spielman, told The Miami Herald last Tuesday.
So here is a homosexual, I informed myself.
