International Workshop on Global Collaboration of Information Schools

WIS 2011

October 24, 2011

ICADL 2011 (http://www.icadl2011.org/), Beijing, China

New Submission Deadline Announcement, August 14

Due to access problems to the WIS 2011 web site from some regions the organizing team has decided to receive late submissions of papers and research synopses. The reviewing and selection will be done separately from those submissions received by August 15.

The deadline and acceptance notification for this extra-call are Sept. 12 (Mon) and Sept. 24(Sat), respectively. Papers accepted for presentation will be published online from the CiSAP website at http://www.cisap.asia/. The due date for publishing will be announced soon.

Extended submission dates, announced on August 14

WIS 2011 calls extra submissions and receives contributions by September 12, 2011. Submissions in response to this call will be reviewed separately from those submissions to the first call.

Submission Due: September 12, 2011

Acceptance Notification: September 24, 2011

Camera Ready Copy Due: to be announced

Registration

WIS 2011 is a pre-conference event of ICADL 2011. Please refer registration information at ICADL 2011 Web site (http://www.icadl2011.org/).

For authors willing to present their research but not publish their papers

Authors who are willing to present their research results at WIS 2011 and brush up their papers for future publication from journals or other conferences based on the discussion at WIS 2011, should indicate their intention for future publication in response to the acceptance notification. For those authors, WIS 2011 will publish only extended abstracts. As the reviewing is full-paper basis submissions only by abstract will be automatically rejected.

Workshop Framework

WIS 2011 will have three parts,

Roundtable Discussion: Discussion by invited delegates

Research Forum: Presentations of research papers reviewed by the organizing committee based on the quality

Doctoral Students Forum: Presentations by PhD students and discussion with participants.

Research Forum

Young researchers and PhD students are encouraged to submit their papers to Research Forum or Doctoral Students Forum. The topics are shown below but not limited to,

  Digital Libraries, Archives, Curation and Preservation 

 Information Access, Discovery and Retrieval

 Metadata and Knowledge Organization

 LIS Education, Professional practices, and LIS and Society 

  Web, Social networking and Information management

Doctoral Students Forum

Doctoral students, who are not submitting a research paper, may submit a synopsis of their PhD research project based on the following points:

- Research topic, background and main research questions

- proposed research methods, and

- anticipated outcome/implications, etc.

Call for Papers:

WIS 2011 solicit submissions of Papers for Research Forum and Synopses for Doctoral Students Forum. Please prepare papers and synopses following the guidelines below and submit them to WIS 2011.

Research Forum Paper: All papers should be within 10 pages and follow a consistent presentation and citation style (e.g APA or Harvard).

Doctoral Students Forum: The research synopsis should be within four pages, and should be written in a consistent manner covering the above points.

Submission Instruction

Authors should send their research papers and research synopses by email to the submission address (wis-2011-submission@slis.tsukuba.ac.jp). Papers and synopses have to be in PDF format. Authors should include the following information in the email message text,

Name, affiliation and email address of the corresponding author, and

Type of submission: Research Paper or Research Synopsis.

Contact Addresses

Submissions: wis-2011-submission@slis.tsukuba.ac.jp

Inquiry: wis-2011@slis.tsukuba.ac.jp