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Please, excuse cross postings, The City of Cartagena (Spain) has just launched the on line, free and peer-reviewed journal Archives & Social Studies: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. It is available at: http://socialstudies.cartagena.es. Manuscripts submission available at: http://socialstudies.cartagena.es/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=1 The journal focuses on: A creative use of theory, practice, concepts, uses, paradigms, models, etc., drawn from other disciplines, in order to solve current issues in archival science and recordkeeping. These disciplines include traditionally related areas -librarianship, information science, information studies, law, diplomatics, history...-, as well as more sophisticated approaches -sociology, anthropology, philosophy, informatics, arts, mathematics... A creative use of theory, practice, concepts, uses, paradigms, models, etc., drawn from archival science and recordkeeping, in order to solve issues in related disciplines, and/or to show how this use contributes to a successful management of data, information, documents, records, and related entities, in different environments. Therefore, it encourages an integrated and interdisciplinary approach. In this sense: It studies the whole range of issues related to recordkeeping, archives, records, documents and information, from the point of view of different disciplines. It deals with core concepts for archival science and recordkeeping -authenticity, evidence, context, relationship, metadata, accountability, memory, etc.-, from the point of view of different disciplines. It deals with with core concepts for other disciplines -librarianship, information science, law, sociology, anthropology, informatics, arts...-, from the point of view of archival science and recordkeeping. It publishes articles, dealing with its areas of interest. These include, but not exclusively: Theoretical and practical issues, covering a broad range, from creation to access and dissemination Case studies Conceptual and terminological analysis Scientific methodology Qualitative and quantitative analysis Improved curriculum New and/or creative uses in recordkeeping Creative use of technological tools in recordkeeping Rigorous use of technological tools in recordkeeping Archives on the Internet and distributed environments Theory and practice in non-global communities of practice and local cultural traditions Oral history and other approaches to "non-standard" documents and records Philosophy of archives, history of archives... Vol. 1, N. 0 contents include: Intersections: Public Memory Meets Archival Memory: The Interpretation of Williamsburg's Secretary's Office Richard J. Cox Models of Archival Education: Four, Two, One, or a Thousand? Luciana Duranti Searching for meaning in the Library of Babel: field semantics and problems of digital archiving Nicholas Evans, Hans-Jürgen Sasse "Mind and Sight": Visual Literacy and the Archivist Elisabeth Kaplan, Jeffrey Mifflin Archives in the Digital Age: New Uses for an Old Science Eric Ketelaar Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction Nick Montfort Human behaviour and the making of records and archives Michael Piggott Information Management: a Systemic Model Maria Manuela Gomes de Azevedo Pinto Photographic Meaning in the Age of Digital Reproduction Joanna Sassoon "Having New Eyes": Spaces of Archives, Landscapes of Power Joan M. Schwartz The Generation of Memory Jay Winter Classics Institutionalising the archival document: A republishing Frank Upward Electronic Records, Paper Minds Terry Cook Archives as a Place Luciana Duranti Notes Former President Giuliani and His Library? Richard J. Cox The Trouble with Merle Kate Cumming Faithfully Alejandro Delgado Gómez Servicio de Archivo y Bibliotecas del Ayuntamiento de Cartagena Archivo Municipal Parque de Artillería, s/n. 30201-Cartagena (Spain) Teléfono/Phone: +34 968128855 Fax: +34 968508549 http://archivo.cartagena.es http://carmenconde.cartagena.es/centenario http://socialstudies.cartagena.es