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‘Search, Discovery and Disclosure: Information opportunities and challenges’
Records Management Journal - Themed call for papers
Editor: Elizabeth Lomas, Northumbria University
The Records Management Journal invites submissions for a themed issue focused on the opportunities and challenges of managing information to enable search, discovery and disclosure.
We welcome contributions about, but not limited to, the following themes:
• The challenges and opportunities of search
• Legislative liability, rights, ownership and ethics in the fields of discovery and disclosure
• Professional roles and skills
• Systems design and infrastructure
• Technologies and tools for search, discovery and disclosure
• Planning, management, resourcing
• Context/ metadata capture
• Evidential recordkeeping
• Retention and preservation
• User and organisational needs
We are interested in different disciplinary perspectives from researchers, academics and practitioners. Submissions can be viewpoints, critical reviews, research, case studies or conceptual/philosophical papers.
Submission Deadlines
• Extended abstracts (more info below): 24 July 2015
• Abstracts accepted and authors notified no later than: 31 August 2015
• Full paper submitted: 2 November 2015
• Review, revision and final acceptance: 18 January 2016
Submission Process
Extended abstracts should be a 500 word version of the Records Management Journal’s structured abstract, using the headings described in the author guidelines http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=rmj
Under the design/methodology/approach heading, please include the following as appropriate to the type of paper:
• What is the approach to the topic if it is a theoretical or conceptual paper? Briefly outline existing knowledge and the value added by the paper compared to that.
• What is the main research question and/or aim if it a research paper? What is the research strategy and the main method(s) used?
• If the paper is a case study outline its scope and nature and the method of deriving conclusions.
Please send your extended abstract to: [log in to unmask]
Full papers (for accepted abstracts) should be 3000-8000 words (excluding references) and should be prepared using the RMJ guidelines which can be read here:
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=rmj . Papers will be reviewed following the journal’s standard double-blind peer review process.
Elizabeth Lomas ([log in to unmask]) is also happy to receive informal enquiries.
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