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CALL FOR PAPERS FOR JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION
SPECIAL THEME ISSUE ON LEGAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES
The Journal of Documentation invites papers on legal and economic issues
in digital libraries for a special theme issue to appear in late 2002.
Guest editors for this issue are Professor Christine Borgman of UCLA and
Professor Charles Oppenheim of Loughborough University.
The technology of digital libraries is progressing rapidly, despite
considerable legal and economic challenges to broad implementation. These
challenges include resolving issues of intellectual property (including
copyright, trademarks, and patents), digital rights management, business
models that address the costs and value of digital materials, and economic
models for digital preservation.
To date, legal and economic issues in digital libraries have been
addressed largely within professional communities of libraries, museums,
and archives, or within the private sector. A goal of this special theme
issue is to address economic and legal issues associated with digital
information that transcend individual professional communities.
Economic and legal issues also vary within and between countries, and thus
we seek papers that explore these issues from both national and
international perspectives. Papers written from the point of view of
publishers, information providers, economists, librarians, users, policy
makers, and lawyers are welcome.
Legal and economic issues of digital libraries such as the following are
of interest; the list is intended to suggest the scope of the special
issue, but not to be exhaustive.
… Ownership and access
… Copyright
… Intellectual property
… Rights management
… Business models, including user-based, institution-based and consumer-based
… Models for digitisation and preservation
… Licensing
… e books and e journals
… Terms and conditions of digital access
… Liability
… Consortial models
… Role of University and other kinds of presses
We welcome policy papers, reports of original research, and think pieces.
All papers will be subject to the usual peer review process of the Journal
of Documentation. Inquiries should be made to either of the guest editors.
The deadline for accepting manuscripts is 1 February 2002. All papers
should follow the guidelines for articles in the Journal of Documentation.
The normal length would be 20-40 double-spaced manuscript pages.
Guidelines for authors can be found in any recent issue of the Journal,
either in the printed version or at the publisher's website
www.aslib.com/jdoc/notes.html.
The Journal of Documentation has been published continuously since 1945
and consistently ranks among the highest scoring information science
journals in ISI's list by Impact Factor. 'Documentation' - the art of the
'document' - is the recording, organisation, management, retrieval,
dissemination and use of information in systems and services of all kinds.
Reflecting the Journal's title, its interdisciplinary scope brings together
reports of research and new practice in information science, libraries and
archives, written from the computational, theoretical or economic
viewpoint, or that of the information user or provider. The Journal is
published bimonthly: the January 2002 issue will be Vol. 58, No. 1. The
electronic version may be accessed both at www.aslib.com and at ingenta.com.
Manuscripts may be sent to either:
Professor Christine Borgman
Dept of Information Studies
235 GSE&IS Building
Box 951520
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
USA
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or to:
Professor Charles Oppenheim
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough,
Leics LE11 3TU
UK
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Professor Charles Oppenheim
Dept of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leics LE11 3TU
Tel 01509-223065
Fax 01509-223053
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