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Open Access eJournal – call for participation!15. October 2008 – 12:49 by Centre for E-Government |
At the Centre for E-Government, Danube University Krems (we hosted the EDem08, remember us?) we have a couple of ideas we would let to get started on- the first one is to establish an online open access journal alongside the yearly EDem conference. It will address theoretical and applied topics from e-democracy to e-government. If you are interested in participating, read below and get in touch with me (noella.edelmann@donau-uni.ac.at)!
Details ( please note that if you are interested, we are open to your ideas and suggestions as well as what role you would like to have):
The e-journal will address an international audience being at least bi-lingual, German and English. It will be published twice a year. All content will be available for free for readers on the Internet under a creative commons license. It is the journals intention to be a full open access journal. Thus also authors should have free access to publish their works. Of course the online open access journal will follow the highest standards of peer review. Thus the e-journal intends to be another attractor for young as well as experienced scholars to connect with the Centre for e-Government at the Danube University of Krems.
The e-journal is asking for your participation as a joint international partner organization or your personal board membership including peer reviewing responsibilities.
To receive at hoc the best visibility on the web the Centre will execute its e-journal with the well-established open source platform Open Journal System by the Public Knowledge Project, which was developed at Stanford University. This platform will distribute the contents with its sophisticated metadata possibilities at once in all relevant search engine databases including Google scholar and scientific content harvesters like the Open Archives Harvester. Furthermore the e-journal will be announced in all relevant open directories including the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Librarians’ Internet Index, and many more. It is the journals mission to promote the published articles of its authors at its best.
The Open Access Journal will be promoted via the EDem conference and other conferences addressing the topics, plus extensive community relations within the scientific communities interested in the topics as well as within diverse social software applications and mailing lists on the web. Furthermore the international relations with university libraries will ensure the availability of the e-journal to future students and researchers.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Tags: eDemocracy, eJournal, inenglish, Open Access
