[sigCR] Call for Manuscripts for Knowledge Organization vol 42 2015

[Richard P Smiraglia]

Knowledge Organization (KO): Devoted to Concept Theory, Classification, Indexing, and Knowledge Representation

Knowledge Organization (ISSN 0943-7444) is the official journal of the International Society for Knowledge Organization. Beginning in 2015 the journal will be published eight times per year by ERGON-Verlag, Würzburg, Germany. Tables of contents of prior issues may be examined at this address: http://www.ergon-verlag.de/

The contents of the journal are indexed and abstracted in Social Sciences Citation Index, Web of Science, Information Science Abstracts, INSPEC, Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO), Library Literature and Information Science (Wilson), PASCAL, Referativnyi Zhurnal Informatika, and Sociological Abstracts.

Research articles, including review articles: 1) clarify theoretical foundations (general ordering theory, philosophical foundations of knowledge and its artifacts, theoretical bases of classification, data analysis and reduction); 2) describe practical operations associated with indexing and classification, as well as applications of classification systems and thesauri, manual and machine indexing; 3) trace the foundations and history of knowledge organization; 4) discuss questions of education and training in classification; and 5) problems of terminology in general and with respect to special fields.

All articles are subject to rigorous, double-blind, peer-review. Manuscripts that are accepted during review are generally published within six months of submission. Articles should be between 4,000 and 10,000 words in length. Papers should be situated properly in the literature of the knowledge organization domain.

Manuscripts: Instructions for authors may be found here: http://www.isko.org/ko.html 
Submissions should be submitted with an indicative abstract through our ScholarOne portal at: http://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/jisko 

Richard P. Smiraglia
Editor-in-Chief, Knowledge Organization
Professor, Knowledge Organization Research Group,
School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
ko at isko.org