Call for Participation in the Doctoral Forum at ISSI 2009 in Brazil

[Jesper Wiborg Schneider]

 (Apologies for cross postings)

              CALL FOR DOCTORAL FORUM APPLICATIONS AT ISSI 2009

 ISSI 2009 - 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and
Informetrics
              July 14-17, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
                       http://www.issi2009.org

*** Deadline for Doctoral Forum applications: April 1, 2009 ***

The biannual ISSI conference is the premier international venue for 
research within the areas of informetrics, scientometrics and 
bibliometrics. For more information on the scope of the conference 
and the areas of interest please visit the conference web site.

For the third time a Doctoral Forum is offered at the ISSI conference. 
The Doctoral Forum is an offer and an invitation to doctoral students 
to present their research projects to senior researchers and to their 
colleagues, and in return receive constructive feedback.

DOCTORAL FORUM APPLICATIONS
Applicants should be doctoral students, from any country, conducting 
ongoing PhD research on any of ISSI 2009 conference themes and related 
fields. 

To apply to the Forum, please submit an application of up to 1500 words.

The first page of the application must contain the name, affiliation and

full address of the doctoral student including phone and fax numbers and

email address, as well as the name of the supervisor(s). 

The application should be submitted in RTF or PDF format using the 
electronic conference submission system. For more details, see: 
http://www.issi2009.org/php/level.php?lang=en&component=47&item=2.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 1, 2009

DOCTORAL FORUM ORGANIZERS:
Jesper W. Schneider (Royal School of Library & Information Science,
Denmark)
Sonia M. R. Vasconcelos (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Please visit the conference web for more information of the 
Doctoral Forum
(http://www.issi2009.org/php/level.php?lang=en&component=47&item=1.