On 17 Jul 2009, at 15:54, Chris Rusbridge wrote:
> Les, is this an Open Access issue?
Yes. Apologies for the delay in answering, but I have just received
final confirmation from the Senior Editor (Derek Law) that he has
received unequivocal confirmation from the publisher that it will be a
(publisher-provided) Open Access issue. This is something that we have
been pushing for since the beginning, but it has only just been
confirmed.
I hope that you will all consider submitting something for this issue!
--
Les Carr
> On 16 Jul 2009, at 16:44, Leslie Carr wrote:
>
>> Reminder! [Less than] 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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