Information Matters, published by ASIS&T, seeks Special Issue editors to collect and curate 8-10 articles from authors who would write 500-1,000 word articles about an Information Science theme of the editors’ choosing.

Information Matters has recently published Special Issues on Professional Development and Collaborative Interpretation– we look forward to considering your or your editorial team’s idea for an IM Special Issue.

Benefits of the Special Issue for editors and article authors

• IM adds graphics and visual elements to each SI article to enhance the appeal of your work, then push it to the world through several social media and other channels.
• The SI article goes out to the wide audience around the world. You can see who’s reading IM: its global audience, industry and academic distribution, and social media influence.
• IM distributes through SSRN, a research networking and promotion site which assembles, disseminates, and promotes scholarly content contributions from researchers around the world.
• The article in IM gets its own DOI and is indexed in Google Scholar and other places, bringing you more citations and readership.
• It’s fully open access: free to read for all readers.

Process for Special Issue Editors

1. First, please e-mail the Information Matters editors a paragraph or two proposing the theme and questions you would like to explore with the collection of articles.
2. After reviewing the Special Issue topic with the Information Matters editors, the Special Issue editors would write a Call for Papers for the Special Issue. Please see these CFPs as examples: CFP: Special Issue on Professional Development and CFP: Special Issue on Collaborative Interpretation. CFPs should include: Special Issue topic and questions; instructions to authors for posting to Information Matters; the Special Issue deadline for submissions; all names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of the Special Issue editors.
3. IM will announce and advertise the CFP. Editors will select 8-10 articles after the SI submission deadline, and will write an introduction to the SI. IM will edit and publish the introduction and articles to a special section on the IM site and to the SSRN site.

Information Matters Article Format

Special Issue Editors, please note that Information Matters does not seek conventional scholarly submissions but instead seeks: Short articles of 5-6 paragraphs (500 to 1,000 words); writing accessible to a general, non-expert audience; text without academic citations and reference lists but with embedded links to online supporting texts. Please see the author instructions and this example article for details. Work previously published elsewhere will be considered as long as it is rewritten in the Information Matters article format.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Dr. Chirag Shah, Editor-in-Chief
Garrett Doherty, Managing Editor
[email protected]
https://informationmatters.org