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1/2011 - Methodological issues in LIS and current research in the field

The first issue in 2011 is devoted to the questions on methodology and current research in LIS. What are the specifics of the methodology in information science and library studies? How to teach the methodology in the field? What research topics are currently being pursued in LIS? The next issue of ProInflow is seeking to answer these questions and many more!

Issue editor: Mgr. Ladislava Suchá (KISK FF MU)

Your papers are welcome at casopis_IV@inflow.cz

Please, read the author guidelines (see below)!

Deadlines for the 1/2011 issue

  • January 10, 2011 submission deadline for abstracts of papers for the peer-reviewed section
  • March 1, 2011 submission deadline for papers for the peer-reviewed section
  • April 1, 2011 submission deadline for papers for the other (non peer-reviewed) sections
  • May 2011 new issue release

Schedule

1/2011  - Methodological issues in LIS and current research in the field

2/2011 - Centralised services - the joint catalogues in new ways

The theme of the issue is support of strong centralised services (national, federative, consortial) which are about to answer an information need of a wide range of users in an efficient way. This means to be able to get anything easily, quickly and cheaply from anywhere to everywhere. It concerns both searching for a new model of the "classical" centralised services (central catalogues, national joint catalogue, document deliveries, inter-library loan service, long-term archiving of information sources etc.) and creating brand-new types of services using the most advanced technology and approaches (i.e. the semantic web).

Theme of the issue 2/2011 is tied together with a topic of the CASLIN 2011 conference. Contributions presented at the conference and shaped into form of a scholarly paper as stated in our author guidelines will be added to the issue.

Your papers are welcome at casopis_IV@inflow.cz

Please, read the author guidelines (see below)!

Author guidelines

  • We accept papers in Czech, Slovak or English.
  • Provide your paper or its abstract with an information to which section you are sending it.
  • Instructions for text formatting are stated below. Please pay special attention to citation and reference form!
  • The range of text is various in each section of the journal (see below description of the sections). Stated range is not mandatory, but recommended.
  • Send your papers or abstracts at casopis_IV@inflow.cz.

Deadlines 

For March Issue

  • December 15 (of a previous year): submission deadline for abstracts of papers for the peer-reviewed section
  • January 15: submission deadline for papers for the peer-reviewed section
  • February 15: submission deadline for papers for the other (non peer-reviewed) sections
  • March: new issue release

For September Issue

  • April 15: submission deadline for abstracts of papers for the peer-reviewed section
  • May 15: submission deadline for papers for the peer-reviewed section
  • August 15: submission deadline for papers for the other (non peer-reviewed) sections
  • September: new issue release

Offered paper should include

  • title (in English, Czech or Slovak),
  • information about author (small piece of text about 250–1000 characters long). Include your name, date of birth, address and email,
  • keywords (3-10 terms),
  •  a list of references.
  • For papers offered to the reviewed section, also include an abstract.

Text formatting

  • Please use formatting in the text only in minimum. We prefer Times new roman font, 12 pt size and 1,5 line spacing. Use italic only extraordinarily, just to emphasize a word, a term or a word in other language.
  • For references and notes in text use footnotes.
  • Make a list of references in alphabetical order using norms ČSN ISO 690 and ČSN ISO 690-2. Further information about these norms (also with examples) can be found in this document: http://www.evskp.cz/SD/4c.pdf. In case of any question please ask the editorial staff at casopis_IV@inflow.cz.
  • Label each figure, diagram or table in text as "Figure 1 Description of a figure", "Diagram 1 Description of a diagram", "Table 1 Description of a table" etc. Always place the label below an object, which it describes. Send us all the figures, diagrams, tables etc. in separate files as images (i.e. .png, .jpg) in sufficient quality and size (more is always better). Each file must have a name similar to the corresponding object in text! For example: "Figure 1 Description of a figure" - Figure 1.png; "Diagram 1 Description of a diagram" - Diagram 1.png...
  • For supplements follow the same procedure as described for figures, diagrams and tables. Label each supplement as "Supplement 1 Description of a supplement" and send them in separate files.
  • You can send us texts in .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt formats.

We accept papers to following sections:

Reviewed scholarly papers

Reviewed scholarly papers (recommended range is 5-15 pages) present the main part of the journal's content. Papers in this section always pass through the peer-review process to ensure their high quality.

Book review

We welcome any review (in range of 1-5 pages) of any notable book from the field of Library and information studies or other fields which are close enough to the focus and scope of the journal. Reviews related to the issue's theme will be preferred.

Field curiosities

Papers in this rubric are of a smaller range (1-2 pages), which inform our readers about the news and curiosities in LIS. As well as in the book review section, we prefer papers related to the issue's theme.

Copyright

By offering a paper for publication, authors claim that the text has never been published before. If authors offer text already published elsewhere, they must inform editorial staff about this fact. ProInflow publishes original texts in absolute majority.

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

More information about the licence can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/cz/. For general information on Creative Commons visit http://creativecommons.org.

About peer-review

Peer-review is a process ensuring the quality of scholarly papers in the main section of our journal. Original theoretical papers or papers informing about research which are about to appear in the Reviewed scholarly papers section of ProInflow are always processed this way.

Editorial board together with issue editor decide whether a paper shall be reviewed. The papers which will not be up to standard of scholarly paper shall be denied.

Starting with the 2nd issue 2011, we apply the open peerreview process. This means that the authors are informed about names of reviewers and the reviewers know who the author of the article is. Each paper is reviewed by two independent reviewers. Editorial staff and issue editor choose reviewers regarding the theme of the paper and suggest them to the journal's editorial board which may approve or disapprove them. Reviewers are not members of the editorial board and are not employees of the institution publishing ProInflow and mustn't be anyhow connected with an author (or authors) of a paper.

Reviewers may either recommend or not recommend publication of a paper as it is; they may also suggest lesser or greater modifications. In the case that alterations of a text have to be considerably large, a completely new peer-review process will take place. In the case of contradictory reviews, third reviewer is asked to judge the text.

Following the reviews' results, editorial board and issue editor decide about publication of a paper in the reviewed section of the journal. In the case that only lesser arrangements are proposed, a text is sent back to its author together with the recommendations. Author should make the recommended arrangements and the reviewer has the right to see the adjusted paper before decision on its publication is finally made.

In case of any question don't hesitate to ask us at casopis_IV@inflow.cz.