Publishing in the Archives Profession
A blog about scholarship, writing, and publishing for archivists.
From Library Journal‘s Info Docket:
ACRL’s “RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage” Becomes an Open Access Publication
ACRL announces that its special collections and cultural heritage-focused journal RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage became an open access publication beginning with its Spring 2016 30th anniversary issue.
I’m momentarily breaking from this blog’s focus on archives publishing to share this CFP. Their description is pretty general, which I interpret as they are open to ideas. So who’s to say some of those ideas can’t be about archives? As many of us also have librarian duties, this journal may be a new opportunity to show that connection. Plus, it’s open access. They are also looking for editors and reviewers.
Call For Submissions: Journal of New Librarianship
May 11, 2016
The Journal of New Librarianship is pleased to announce that it is accepting submissions for its inaugural issue, anticipated for Fall 2016. Submissions may include, but are not limited to: Solicited articles; Scholarly Articles; Essays; Experience and opinion pieces; Media (i.e., podcasts, video, etc) relevant to innovative practices in librarianship; Book reviews; Technology reviews; Letters to the Editor on topics relevant to the field; Data sets; Manifestos; Extended scholarship (Greater than 15,000 words); and Interviews. Non-English content is welcome. Translation assistance is available for accepted works.
Authors must submit an abstract for all submissions. Authors must submit a cover letter. This should be uploaded as the “Supporting File” when submitted via Scholastica. The cover letter should include the origin of the project, whether it has been presented and if so where, and affirmation of its originality, veracity, and the author’s right to include all submitted material, data, and media. If the submission has been published or showcased publicly in any other manner (a blog post, as an uploaded YouTube video, etc) please include links to these as well as any notes about the circumstances and reception of the content. The cover letter should inform the editors of any time-related issues that should be considered. If material needs to be published that week to remain relevant, let us know. If it would be more relevant if published during a particular conference, let us know. We publish everything on a rolling basis, but hope to have all content be as timely as possible.
When submitting via Scholastica, authors will be asked to list potential reviewers who they deem to be appropriate, as well as any the editorial board should avoid. If the latter field is populated, please tell us in the cover letter (in broad strokes) why this is the case. The manuscript should be submitted in docx format only. For submissions which are not text-based, authors should submit an accompanying text document in the manuscript submission section of Scholastica, separate from the cover letter, which presents a textual presentation of the submission for the readership – something more detailed than your abstract, but not so much that it takes focus away from the primary submission.
Accompanying media of any kind should be submitted as separate files, which includes tables and images. The author is responsible for securing any rights required for the republication of any included media and for providing appropriate citations and/or rights statements. Media submissions may be submitted in two ways. If possible, please upload the media file to Scholastica via the “Supporting File” section. If the file is too large or the tool is otherwise not working, please email info@newlibs.org to make alternative arrangements.
Submissions may be published elsewhere at the author’s discretion. If they appear
elsewhere before they are submitted or during the publishing process, we ask that the author inform the editors. This will not impact the review process in any way. We just want to make sure we promote the work and give credit to wherever it might appear first as appropriate.
Recordings of interviews and conversations are welcome, and should be submitted with a verified transcript. All media in which someone other than the author is audible or visible must be submitted with appropriate release forms, or other documented evidence of the participants’ willingness to be involved.
Textual submissions should conform to APA 6th edition format wherever applicable.
I’ve mostly posted new articles/issues based on what I see on the A&A listserv. While helpful, it’s very limiting and I will try to be better about broadening those announcements.
To start, I happened to go to the Archival Practice website and noticed a new article:
The home stretch: developing automated solutions for legacy container list data at the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries
by: Natalie Baur, Lyn MacCorkle, Sevika Singh
Going forward, please let me know if you or someone you know publishes an article or book. Thanks!
reposted from A&A listserv:
Practical Technology for Archives is an open-access, peer-reviewed, electronic journal focused on the practical application of technology to address challenges encountered in working with archives. Our goal is to provide a timely resource, published semi-annually, that addresses issues of interest to practitioners, and to foster community interaction through monitored comments. Submissions may be full articles, brief tips and techniques, AV tutorials, reviews (tools, software, books), or post-grant technical reports. Please visit practicaltechnologyforarchives.org for more information.
The editorial board of Practical Technology for Archives is calling for proposals/abstracts for Issue no.6 (2016:Summer).
The submission timeline is as follows:
Proposals due: March 18
Selections made: April 1
1st drafts due: April 29
Draft reviews: May 13
Revisions due: May 27
Publication: June 10
Submission should be sent to:
Practical Technology for Archives
Randall Miles
Managing Editor
rm527@cornell.edu
reposted from A&A listserv:
The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies announces publication of Volume 3, Article 3, “A Comparative Study of User Experience between Physical Objects and Their Digital Surrogates,” by Anastasia Varnalis-Weigle, Ph.D. candidate at Simmons College School of Library and Information Science.
While the LAM community has made strides in designing new ways to access digital collections, the question remains: what are users losing in sensory (sight, touch, sound, smell) and emotional experience at the digital level? The author examines this question by enlisting a phenomenological approach consisting of observation and semi-structured interviews with student, faculty, and staff at a large academic institution. Download the article here.
The JCAS is a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal sponsored by the Yale University Library and New England Archivists (NEA). Follow the JCAS on Twitter and Facebook!
Lily Troia, JCAS Social Media Consultant
Dean’s Fellow for Digital Media Outreach
MLIS Candidate ’16
Simmons School of Library and Information Science
lily.troia@simmons.edu
http://simmonsslis.tumblr.com/
reposted from A&A listserv:
The JCAS announces publication of Volume 3, Article 2, “Archiving Governance in Palestine,” by Caitlin M. Davis, University of New Mexico. This paper provides a preliminary investigation of the material-semiotics of archives in Palestine, exploring the peculiar ways in which the form and content of archival documents, architectures, and circulatory networks actually help to engender—not just reflect—some (new) realities of governance.
Download the article here.
The JCAS is a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal sponsored by the Yale University Library and New England Archivists (NEA). Follow the JCAS on Twitter and Facebook!
Best,
Lily Troia, JCAS Social Media Consultant
Lily Cristina Troia
Dean’s Fellow for Digital Media Outreach
MLIS Candidate ’16
Simmons School of Library and Information Science
612.516.6060
lily.troia@simmons.edu
http://simmonsslis.tumblr.com/
Thanks to Lily for sending this to me!
The JCAS is pleased to announce the first article published in 2016: “Developing a Typology of Human Rights Records,” by Noah Geraci and Michelle Caswell, both of UCLA.
This article seeks to answer the following questions: What makes a record a “human rights record”? What types of records fall under this umbrella term? How and why might we develop a typology of such records? What is at stake—ethically, theoretically, and practically—in the ways in which and the reasons why we define and classify records as such? The piece includes a literature review exploring the history of conceptions of human rights records in archival studies, and the ongoing discussion in information studies more broadly about the politics of the organization of information. The paper outlines the chosen methodology of conceptual analysis and describe the ways such methodology will be employed to de/construct the term “human rights record,” and provides a typology of human rights records, positing that such records can be examined according to five interlocking vectors: who created them, why, and when, where they are currently stewarded, and how they are being put to use. The article also examines the ethical, political, and professional implications of the proposed typology and suggests ways in which this rubric can be used in the future.
Download a copy of this open access article at the JCAS site.
The JCAS is a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal sponsored by the Yale University Library and New England Archivists (NEA). Follow the JCAS on Twitter and Facebook!
Best,
Lily Troia, JCAS Social Media Consultant
from the A&A listserv:
The Journal of Western Archives is pleased to announce that Volume 7 Issue 1 has opened. The initial articles deal with mentoring and a case study on the Gregory Peck Papers. The issue also includes a review of Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age. You can view the content at http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/. As a reminder the journal publishes articles on a rolling basis throughout the year. We invite you to follow the journal so that you can get notifications when new content is added.
Gordon Daines
Editor, Journal of Western Archives
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J. Gordon Daines III
Supervisor of Reference Services
Department Chair
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
801-422-5821
gordon_daines@byu.edu
reposted from the A&A listserv:
The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies is pleased to announce publication of Volume 2, Issue 5:
“Quidditch, Zombies, and the Cheese Club: A Case Study in Archiving Web Presence of Student Groups at New York University” by Aleksandr Gelfand.
Student organizations are a unique feature of university life whose records merit preservation. Since the mid-to-late 1990s, these records have been increasingly transitioning from analog format to a digital, web-based platform; a pattern that has only picked-up in the 2000s. This paper looks at a case study of the New York University Archives and its attempt to archive student organizations using the Archive-It service.
Download a copy of this open access article at the JCAS site.
The JCAS is a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal sponsored by the Yale University Library and New England Archivists (NEA). Follow the JCAS on Twitter and Facebook!
Lily Cristina Troia
Dean’s Fellow for Digital Media Outreach
MLIS Candidate ’16
Simmons School of Library and Information Science
612.516.6060
lily.troia@simmons.edu
Reposted from the A&A listserv:
We are pleased to announce the publication of Issue no.5 of Practical Technology for Archives.
http://practicaltechnologyforarchives.org
In this issue we have four excellent articles, one on using SwipeBox to present digitized materials, one about an alternative to 3D scanning, an article on CollectiveAccess, and another on low-budget large-scale digitization, which we hope you will find useful.
I you have an idea or proposal for Issue no.6, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
All the Best,
Randall Miles,
Managing Editor
Cornell University
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