Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before September 1, 2023, a proposal of 500-1,000 words clearly explaining the mission of the proposed chapter entry. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified no later than September 15, 2023, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines for preparing a full chapter manuscript (of no less than 4,000 total words and a maximum of 5,000 words, though larger manuscripts are also welcome) and at least 10 related terms and their appropriate definitions. Full chapters with the related terms and definitions are expected to be submitted by October 20, 2023. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind peer review basis. Contributors may also be asked to serve as reviewers for this project. Guidelines for preparing your full chapter manuscript and terms and definitions may be found at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ under the Encyclopedia category.
All proposals and chapters MUST be submitted through the E-Editorial Discovery online submission manager. No contributions can be submitted via email.
As this encyclopedia is being published under Gold Open Access and will have no paywalls or restrictions of any kind associated with accessing the published content, the publication will be heavily reliant on Open Access Chapter Processing Charges (CPCs) payment provided by either the author(s) or his/her/their respective institution or another funding agency, AFTER the chapter submission has been through a full double-blind peer review and the Editor-in-Chief (at the Editor-in-Chief’s discretion) has decided to accept the chapter based on the results of the double-blind peer review process. The CPC will offset the costs of all of the activities associated with the publication of the chapter, including the digital tools used to support the chapter management and review process, the typesetting, formatting and layout, online hosting, the submission of the publication’s content to numerous abstracts, directories, and indexes, third-party software (plagiarism checks), editorial support which includes chapter manuscript tracking, communications, submission guideline checks, communications with authors and reviewers, as well as all promotional support and activities which includes metadata distribution, press releases, promotional communications, web content, ads, fliers, brochures, postcards, etc. for the encyclopedia and its published contents; and the fact that all published chapters will of course be freely accessible and able to be posted and disseminated widely by the authors. All chapters will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licensing arrangement.
The Chapter Processing Charge (CPC) for this encyclopedia is currently set at US $600 and authors will not be asked to provide payment of the CPC fee (directly to the publisher) until AFTER their chapter has gone through the full double-blind peer review process and the Editor-in-Chief (at the Editor-in-Chief’s discretion) has decided to accept the manuscript based on the results of the double-blind peer review process. Please note that there is absolutely NO correlation between the CPC being paid by the author and the results of review process outcomes
Under the Gold Open Access model, all content published to a scholarly publication such as this encyclopedia is fully and freely accessible to all researchers worldwide, and the copyright remains with the chapter author(s) as the work is published formally under Creative Commons licensing. As such, authors are free to distribute, build upon, re-publish, etc. the work once it is published in the encyclopedia. Many researchers in the field do not understand how critical it is to have the proper licensing associated with their published work, or the level of flexibility and freedom they can have under Gold Open Access (Creative Commons licensing) to fully and freely share their work globally, without fear of copyright infringement or legal ramifications.
Gold Open Access publishing offers many tangible benefits to authors seeking to:
- Share their full-text research with colleagues, students, and more all over the world.
- Make their research more discoverable through social media, directories, etc.
- Have their research cited and used more often (increasing the potential for indexing). Open Access papers are 2-3 times more likely to be read, have 89% higher download rates, and are 47% more likely to be cited than non-open access papers.
- Adhere to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) standards.
- Fulfill government and funding mandates.
- Increase their networking opportunities.
- Have their full-text work automatically shared to ResearchGate, AGOSR, CORE, and other leading repositories.
Many full-text manuscripts have already been published in the repository of the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology and are freely accessible to all. To view them click here.