Les, is this an Open Access issue?
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On 16 Jul 2009, at 16:44, Leslie Carr wrote:
> Reminder! Two weeks until the deadline for submissions for The New
> Review on Information Networking (NRIN) special issue on Repository
> Architectures, Infrastructures and Services (31st July 2009).
>
> The aim of this issue is to further our understanding on how
> repositories are delivering services and capability to the
> scholarly and scientific community by marshalling resources at the
> institutional scale and delivering at the global scale.
> Considerable progress in this area has been achieved under the
> "Open Access" banner and this special issue aims to explore the
> technical aspects of facilitating the scientific and scholarly
> commons: open access to research literature, research data,
> scholarly materials and teaching resources.
>
> Topics for this special issue include (but are not limited to):
> - Repository architecture, infrastructure and services
> - Repositories supporting scholarly communications
> - Repositories supporting e-research and e-researchers
> - Integrating with publishing and publishing platforms
> - Repositories and research information systems
> - Integrating with other infrastructure platforms e.g., cloud, Web2
> - Integrating with other data sources, linked data and the Semantic
> Web
> - Scaling repositories for extreme requirements
> - Computational services and interfaces across distributed
> repositories
> - Content & metadata standards
> - OAI services
> - Web services, Web 2.0 services, mashups
> - Social networking, annotation / tagging, personalization
> - Searching and information discovery
> - Reference, reuse, reanalysis, re-interpretation, and repurposing
> of content
> - Persistent and unambiguous citation and referencing for entities:
> individuals, institutions, data, learning objects
> - Repository metrics and bibliometrics: usage and impact of
> scholarly and scientific knowledge
>
> Scope of the New Review on Information Networking
> =================================================
> A huge number of reports has been published in recent years on the
> changing nature of users; on the changing nature of information; on
> the relevance of current organisational structures to generations
> apparently weaned on social networks. Reading this mass of
> literature, far less digesting it, then assimilating it into future
> strategy is a Sisyphean task, but one ideally suited to this
> journal. Individual services from Second Life to Twitter will no
> doubt wax and wane but we shall seek to publish those papers which
> address the fundamental underlying principles of the increasingly
> complex information landscape which organisations inhabit.
>
> Important dates
> ===============
> Submission of full paper: 31st July 2009
> Notification deadline: 1st September 2009
> Re-submission of revised papers: 15th September 2009
> Publication: Autumn 2009
>
> Submissions and Enquiries
> =========================
> Papers submitted to this special issue must not have been
> previously published or be currently submitted for journal
> publication elsewhere.
>
> Submissions should ideally be in the range of 3,500 - 4,000 words.
>
> Submissions and enquiries should be made by email to the editor of
> this special issue: Leslie Carr, University of Southampton, UK
> ([log in to unmask])
>
> The official version of this Call for Papers is online at http://
> repositoryman.blogspot.com/2009/06/special-issue-of-new-review-on.html
>
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