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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Timeline for a Special Issue — Zero to Finish in Three Months!
- Step-1: Provide a CFP and get the approval. IM will set up a special tag that you will need to ask your authors to use when submitting.
- Step-2: Start distributing the CFP with that special tag information. IM will also help with publicity.
- Step-3: Set a reasonable deadline (typically two months) for receiving the submissions. During this time, get the CFP out a couple more times. As the articles come in, we will process them and publish through the IM website as usual. But we will not publish them in SSRN.
- Step-4: Once the deadline passes and we have enough articles for your special issue (typically 8-12), we will ask you to write an introduction article (500-1,000 words) for your special issue.
- Step-5: We will then create a special issue page like this one where all the articles in your special issue appear in the order that you deem appropriate, starting with your introduction.
- Step-6: In the following month, we will publish this collection through SSRN, which will give all the articles the same volume and issue numbers.
- Step-7: Publicize! We will help you too, but this will be a chance to do some publicity on your own and attract a broad audience to your scholarship.
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
