[Asis-l] 2013 ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest for Developing Countries

[Shaheen Maqsood]

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The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of
the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is
pleased to announce its 13th competition for papers to be submitted for the
2013 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Centre Sheraton, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, November 1-6, 2013. (
http://asist.org/asist2013/AM2013CFP.pdf)



Building from the overall conference theme, the theme for this
year’s paper contest is: *“Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information
Boundaries”*. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on
specific aspects of the theme from a global
and/orinternational perspective. Topics include, but are not limited to,
the following core areas:



*1.* *Human Information Interaction:* Information Retrieval; Information
Behavior;

Human Computer Interaction; Usability; E-Science & Distributed
Collaboration; Virtual Organizations; User Modeling; Mobile Technologies.



*2.* *Information Organization and Representation*: Meta data; Taxonomies;
Information Visualization; Information Architecture; Digital Libraries;
Indexing and Abstracting; Classification; Social Tagging; Semantic Web and
Ontology; Social Media.



*3.* *Information Use & Analysis*: Information Seeking and User Studies;
Strategic, Security & Competitive Intelligence; Information & Knowledge
Management; Comparative Analysis of Information Practices; Information
Metrics (Bibliometrics/Informatrics/Webometrics).



*4. Information Preservation & Access:* Digital Curation; Big Data; E-book;
Information Quality; Copyright, Intellectual Properties and Related Issues;
Information Literacy.



*5. Information Environments & Socio-Cultural Aspects:* Organizational &
Contextual Issues; Security & Privacy; Economics of Information; Social
Informatics; Information Policy; Foundation of Information Science; Digital
Humanities; Web 3.0 and related technologies; Cloud Computing.



*Selection Criteria*



There will be up to three winners who will be selected by a panel of judges
including: Maqsood Shaheen (IRC, US Embassy Islamabad), Alma Rivera
(Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México), and, Fatih Oguz (University
of North Carolina at Greensboro).



The judging criteria will be based on:



1.      Originality of paper in the developing world and global information
ecosystem (originality of the project described, etc.)



2.      Relevance to the paper contest theme



3.      Quality of argument, presentation and organization



*Eligibility & Information for authors*

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*Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a
developing country are eligible*. Winners in the 2009-2012 contests are not
eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and submitted in
English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network
specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation,
maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information.



*Award*



The award for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIS&T. In
the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the
ASIS&T membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this
competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000
toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending
the ASIS&T Annual Conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 1-6,
2013.



*Style*



The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow
the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors.
Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622845/authorinstructions



*Publishing opportunities*



Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the
*International*

*Information and Library Review*, subject to the usual peer refereeing
process, for that journal.



*ASIS&T Copyright Policy*



ASIS&T will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of
the papers submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all
other rights remaining with the author.



*Deadline for submission of full papers:* Authors are invited to submit
manuscripts, not to exceed 5,000 words, by May 31, 2013, to Maqsood Shaheen
at ShaheenMA at gmail.com, preferably as Microsoft Word or PDF attachments.



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Maqsood Shaheen

Chair

International Paper Contest Committee, SIG III

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)

Website: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/

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