[open-science] 20th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub) 2016 - Call for Papers

[Birgit Schmidt]

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

*Call for Papers*


  20th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Göttingen,
  Germany)


      Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents and
      Agendas


      7-9 June 2016, Göttingen, Germany

Conference web site: www.elpub.net <http://www.elpub.net>

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ELPUBConference

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Elpub2016


Proceedings will be published open access by IOS Press. Selected papers 
will be published in a special edition of the Journal Information 
Services & Use.


      Scope

The *International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub)* reaches 
its 20th anniversary! Elpub 2016 continues the tradition, and brings 
together scholars, publishers, lecturers, librarians, developers, 
entrepreneurs, users and all other stakeholders interested in issues 
regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts.


Elpub 2016 will have a fresh look on the current ecosystem of scholarly 
publishing including the positioning of stakeholders and distribution of 
economic, technological and discursive power. Elpub will also open the 
floor for emerging alternatives in how scholars and citizens interact 
with scholarly content  and what role dissemination and publishing plays 
in these interactions. Questions to be raised include: What is the core 
of publishing today? How does agenda setting in emerging frameworks like 
Open Science function and what is the nature of power of the referring 
scholarly discourses? How does this relate to the European and 
world-wide Open Science and Open Innovation agenda of funders and 
institutions, and how does this look like in publishing practice?

The conference will investigate the position and power of players and 
agents, - e.g. scholars and their networks, legacy and academia-owned 
publishers, research institutions and e-infrastructures - as well as 
their respective agendas. When looking at these interlinked topics, we 
aim to sharpen the view for current challenges and ways forward to 
reshape the publishing system. You are most welcome to join us in this 
exciting discussion!


      Topics include but are not restricted to:


      Enhancing publishing, access and reuse

·Publishing models on the move (business and funding models, tools, 
services and roles)

·Open access revisited (publishing solutions, mandates and compliance, 
licenses, recommendations, disciplinary initiatives)

·New publishing paradigm (data publishing and citation, open pre/post 
publication peer review, executable papers, nano-publications)

·Interoperability and standards (metadata, identifier, vocabularies, 
repository integration, scalability, middleware infrastructure)


      Quality, trust, skills and competencies

·Research integrity (authorship and contributor roles, scientific rigor, 
fraud and paper retraction, reproducible research)

·Ethical and legal issues (authority, reliability, trust, copyright, 
privacy)

·New types of quality assurance (user comments, pre/post publication 
(open) peer review, etc.)

·Maintaining high quality standards (cost transparency, management and 
monitoring of publication costs)


      Transforming digital collections

·Digital collections as data, from processing and visualisation to data 
citation and new types of publications

·User engagement and interaction (strategies and incentives, models for 
participatory projects/experiments, data quality and management, open 
science, crowd-sourcing)

·Reader / Information seeking behaviour and testing

·Enhanced research infrastructures and publishing environments (digital 
humanities, tools, workflows, interoperability, digital editions)


      Data mining and knowledge discovery

·Big Data and its role in publishing (including use cases, technologies)

·Text and data mining (natural language processing, text harvesting, 
dynamic formatting)

·Open Data, Open Linked Data (solutions, methods, tools, open data 
challenges)

·Association mining (knowledge linking, discovery, presentation)

·Visualization (clustering, graphs, knowledge maps, augmented reality)

·User behavior and personalization technologies (user studies, social 
tagging, recommendation services)


      Measuring impact and reuse

·Social networks and interaction analysis (author collaboration trends, 
publication trends)

·Bibliometrics and Altmetrics

·Author identifiers and profiles, citation and attribution


      Submission


All submissions are subject to peer review. For each accepted paper, at 
least one author is expected to register for the conference to present 
the paper. Inclusion in the proceedings is conditional upon registration 
of at least one author per paper.


Moreover, upon submitting a workshop or demonstration, the proposers 
commit that in case their submission is accepted, all people committed 
to support the event (speakers, lecturers, panel members, etc.) will 
physically attend and coordinate it.


Papers submitted to this conference must not have been accepted or be 
under review by another conference or by a journal. The accepted papers 
will be published by IOS Press in a digital format open access 
conference proceedings book. Papers will be indexed in DBLP, Scopus and 
other abstracting and indexing services.


After the conference, selected papers will be published open access in 
the journal/*Information Services & Use*/ 
(http://www.iospress.nl/journal/information-services-use/) under a 
Creative Commons license, subject to suggested alterations and suitable 
expansion of the work.


Furthermore, all accepted papers and posters will be archived at the 
Elpub Digital Library: http://library.elpub.net/. All contents published 
in the Elpub proceedings are distributed open access via the conference 
archive under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license, 
which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any 
medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.


Paper submission and review will be managed via the EasyChair system. To 
submit a paper, please use the appropriate template and follow the 
specific instructions available at the conference website 
(http://www.elpub.net).


All full papers, short papers and posters must be written in English and 
submitted via the EasyChair submission system in PDF format.


      Submission guidelines

All submissions should be made via EasyChair. For all submissions follow 
the EasyChair link instructions and tools which are available at the 
following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elpub2016


Contributions are invited for the following categories:

·*Full papers*(manuscript up to 10 pages)

·*Short papers*(manuscript up to 6 pages)

·*Posters*(abstract min. of 500 words submission and then with the 
option to publish a manuscript between 2 - 4 pages if the authors choose).

·*Workshops*(abstract min. of 500 words)

·*Demonstrations*(abstract min. of 500)


*Important dates*

26 October 2016 *Call for Papers*

1 November 2015 *Submission Site Open*

15 December 2015 *Submission Deadline*

8 February 2016 *Author Decision Notification*

7 March 2016 *Submission of Camera Ready Version*

15 April 2016 *Early Bird Registration Deadline*

20 May 2016 *Final Registration Deadline*

7-9 June 2016 *Conference*


Conference dates and location: 7-9 June 2016, University of Göttingen, 
Germany

Conference Host: *University of Göttingen*


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Dr. Birgit Schmidt
Scientific Manager

Goettingen State and University Library
- Electronic Publishing -
Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1
D-37073 Goettingen

Tel. +49 551 39-33181
Fax  +49 551 39-5222
bschmidt at sub.uni-goettingen.de
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