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Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues invites
submissions for a themed issue on Digital Preservation.
The scale and diversity of digital collections in national memory institutions has grown immensely over the past decades. The challenges of maintaining and preserving these collections for future generations
have been recognized and addressed in various forms, and solution maturity at an international level is diverse. To reflect this diversity and share experiences across the international stage, we are seeking articles on practical implementation models for
digital preservation, staffing and embedding digital preservation expertise, holistic and sustainable solutions, and the implications of local, national and collaborative strategies.
A process of double peer review will be applied. Abstracts are due
Tuesday 1 November 2016 and the full manuscript for selected articles will be due
Friday 31 March 2017. The themed issue will be published in Summer 2017.
Abstracts should be no more than 1000 words.
Full articles should be between 4000 and 7500 words long.
Short communications should be no more than 3000 words long.
Author guidelines are available at
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/alexandria/journal202510#submission-guidelines
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
This is not a prescriptive list:
Alexandria wishes to present the widest possible range of papers relating to digital preservation, including papers from the perspective of academic libraries, public libraries and other archiving institutions. All submissions make clear their collecting
context and we particularly welcome submissions on new and emerging programmes within developing countries.
This themed issue will be edited by Maureen Pennock (Head of Digital Preservation at the British Library) and Libor Coufal (Assistant Director, Digital Preservation at the National Library of Australia). Queries
about the suitability of a topic should be addressed in the first instance to the Journal Editor, Monica Blake ([log in to unmask]), or Assistant Editor, Lyn Robinson
([log in to unmask]).
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