The Editor of World Digital Libraries: An International Journal (WDL) invites Papers for the December 2008 and June 2009 issue. World Digital Libraries: An International Journal is a peer reviewed bi-annual journal on digital libraries. The first issue of this journal has just been published. Content can be found at http://bookstore.teriin.org/journal_inside.php?material_id=477&qty=1. You are requested to subscribe the same or recommend to your library to subscribe. The second issue will be published in December 2008. The aim of the journal is to advance the theory and practice of acquisition, organization, management and dissemination of digital information on a sustainable basis. The journal will seek quality research papers that present original theoretical approaches as well as experimental case studies related to digital library development and maintenance. In doing so, the journal will keep readers abreast with the current developments in the field. The journal will include articles, reviews, current developments, and case studies dealing with § theoretical and methodological issues that relate to the interrelationships among electronic resources management, digital preservation, multiple access, multilinguality, copyright issues and security aspects; § initiatives taken towards digitization through lucid case studies; § current developments across the globe; and § dialogues between the scientific community and society at large. The journal will be having global coverage with local focus and would provide a platform for decision-makers, planners, consultants, library and information science professionals to share their experiences. It will also facilitate dialogue among the digital library communities. Articles and reviews should examine concepts, analyses, new approaches, and techniques pertaining to this field. Case studies covering new initiatives, as well as procedural breakthroughs of important issues in the digital library field would be included. Book reviews will cover recent books in the field, reviewed by an independent reviewer. All submissions will be peer-reviewed using the criteria of originality, accuracy, and quality of contribution in these fields. The journal will also provide an update on topical developments in the field; notes on important breakthroughs; information on forthcoming conferences, workshops, seminars and relevant events; and highlight activities of national and international importance in the field. We would like to request all of you to submit paper for the same to dckar@teri.res.in address below. Editor-in-Chief: Prof N Balakrishnan, Professor & Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Editor Debal C Kar, Fellow, TERI, New Delhi Editorial Board: Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET, India Prof. José Luis Borbinha, INESC-ID - Information Systems Group, Engineering School, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal Prof. Daniel Chandran PhD, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Prof. Ching-chih Chen PhD, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmond College, USA Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK Dr P R Goswami, Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC), Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, Prof. Alan Hopkinson, Head of Library Systems, Learning Resources, The Sheppard Library, Middlesex University, UK Prof. Ee-Peng Lim, PhD, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore Prof. Gary Marchionini, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Dr. A. Lakshmana Moorthy, Director, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, India Dr Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Librarian, Indian Institute of Public Administration, India Prof. Dr Erich J Neuhold, Professor, Computer Science, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Research Studios Austria, University of Vienna, Austria Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Mr John Paschoud, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics, UK Dr. A.R.D. Prasad, Documentation Research & Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India Prof. Dr Michael Seadle, Director, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Dr. V N Shuka, Director (Application), CDAC, India Prof. Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg PhD, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Prof. M G Sreekumar Phd, Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India. Prof. Shigeo Sugimoto, Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan Prof. P. Tapio Varis Ph.D. , Acting President, Global University System., Unesco Chair in global eLearning with applications to multiple domains, Professor and Chair of Media Education, University of Tampere, Finland Prof. Shalini R. Urs PhD, Executive Director, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore, India Prof. Om Vikas PhD, Director, ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India Prof Ian H. Witten PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand Thanking you and with personal regards Yours sincerely, Debal C Kar, Fellow Library and Information Centre ************************************************************ TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) Darbari Seth Block IHC Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi 110 003 (India) Tel. +91 11 2468 2100, 2468 2111 Ext 2724 Fax +91 11 2468 2144, 2468 2145 E-mail dckar@teri.res.in Web site www.teriin.org ************************************************************ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.