Dear All, International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Fifth COLLNET Meeting will be held at Central Library of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India on 2-5 March, 2004 First Announcement and Call for Papers Scope Quantitative aspects of science of science. Collaboration and communication in science and in technology. Science policy. Combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Theoretical, methodological and applied aspects, for example: - Emerging issues in scientometrics/informetrics/webometrics and history - Quantitative analysis of S&T innovations - Informetric laws and distributions, mathematical models of communication or collaboration - Information retrieval - Nature and growth of science and its relation with technological output - Evaluation indicators - Collaboration in science and in technology from both quantitative and qualitative points of view Please, note that these examples listed above give a broad outline of the scope of the workshop theme but do not limit it. Important Dates: Abstract: 30 th November 2003 Acceptance : 15 th December 2003 Full Paper : 15 th January 2004 Please send your abstracts to: Yogendra Singh Librarian Central Library Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee Roorkee-247667 U.A. India Tel: +91-1332-285239, 277587 Fax: +91-1332-277587, 273560 E-mail yogi@iitr.ernet.in, rulib@iitr.ernet.in r_kundra@yahoo.com Please send also a copy to: kretschmer.h@onlinehome.de Call for papers as PDF file is available at http://www.collnet.de/Roorkee.pdf ------------- Posted by J K Vijayakumar INFLIBNET, India __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus