Call for Papers

Call for Papers for the international conference in Information Science and Social Media – ISSOME in 24.-26.8.2011 will be open in January.

We invite researchers worldwide to submit original research within the topics of the conference that are listed below. Submissions should be extended abstracts of no longer than 1500 words. All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded.

Conference themes

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Social media in information science
• Information aspects of social media
• Library 2.0 and Librarian 2.0
• Social networking sites
• Information Management
• Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Organization
• Reputation Management
• Information Behaviour and Information Use
• Information dissemination in social media

Structure of the extended abstract

• Title
• Abstract text
• References

Abstract text should clearly describe the aims, novelty/originality and principal findings/contribution of the presentation. In the case of empirical studies, also the method and material should be described briefly.

Observe that no information about the authors should be included in the abstract document.

Deadline

Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2011.  See Important dates for schedule.

Submissions

All submissions have to be submitted using the conference system. See Submissions for details.

Conference language

The conference language is English.