[sigCR] Knowledge Organization call for papers for volume 43 2016

[Richard P Smiraglia]

Call For Papers volume 43 2016



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. The journal is 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/en/bibliotheks--informationswissenschaft/knowledge-organization-journal/index.php. The journal is available online to ISKO members here: http://www.ergon-verlag.de/isko_ko/. The journal (2008 to date) is indexed and full-text is available through LISTA with full text (EBSCOHost).



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, Scopus 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<mailto:ko at isko.org>