Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The IJDC is entirely devoted to papers, articles and news items on curation of digital objects and related issues. The journal is published in electronic form, two times a year.

 

Section Policies

Editorial

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Papers (Peer-reviewed)

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Publication Frequency

IJDC is published two times a year.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

IJDC Editorial Board

The Editor-in-Chief, Kevin Ashley, Digital Curation Centre, is assisted by an Editorial Board consisting of the following members:

  • Alex Ball, UKOLN, University of Bath
  • Anthony Beitz, Monash eResearch Centre
  • Susan Borda, University of California, Merced
  • Christine Borgman, Department of Information Studies, University of California
  • David Britton, University of Glasgow (GridPP)
  • Peter Buneman, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
  • Adrian Burton, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Resources
  • Andrew Charlesworth, Centre of IT and Law, University Of Bristol
  • Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University
  • Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Danish State Library
  • Euan Cochrane, Consultant
  • Simon Coles, University of Southampton
  • Louise Corti, UK Data Archive
  • Simon Cox, University of Southampton
  • Patricia Cruse, University of California
  • Michael Day, UKOLN, University of Bath
  • David De Roure, University of Southampton
  • Matthew Dovey, JISC
  • Adam Farquhar, British Library
  • Caroline Gardiner, University of Bristol
  • Stephane Goldstein, Research Information Network
  • Stephen Grace, University of East London
  • Mark Hahnel, FigShare
  • Lorna Hughes, Centre for e-Research, Kings College London
  • Jane Hunter, The School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland
  • Paul Jeffreys, University of Oxford
  • William Kilbride, Digital Preservation Coalition
  • Carl Lagoze, Information Science, Cornell University
  • Brian Lavoie, OCLC
  • Julia Lane, National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago
  • Bryan Lawrence, British Atmospheric Data Centre
  • Michael Lesk, Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University
  • Herve L'Hours, UK Data Archive
  • Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
  • Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
  • Liz Lyon, UKOLN, University of Bath
  • Bob Mann, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
  • Julie McLeod, University of Northumbria
  • Bill Michener, University of New Mexico
  • Reagan Moore, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Heike Neuroth, University of Göttingen
  • Maureen Pennock, British Library
  • Sam Pepler, British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
  • Hans Pfeiffenberger, Alfred Wegener Institute
  • Andy Powell, Eduserv Foundation
  • Rob Procter, National Centre for e-Social Science
  • Graham Pryor, Digital Curation Centre
  • Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology
  • Robin Rice, University of Edinburgh
  • Jeroen Rombouts, TU Delft Library
  • David Rosenthal, Stanford University
  • Seamus Ross, University of Toronto
  • Sally Rumsey, Oxford University
  • Chris Rusbridge, Consultant
  • Anna Shadbolt, University of Melbourne
  • Richard Sinnott, National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow
  • MacKenzie Smith, University of California, Davis
  • Jonathan Tedds, University of Leicester
  • Manfred Thaller, University of Cologne
  • Andrew Treloar, Monash University
  • Bill Underwood, Georgia Tech Research Institute
  • Tyler O. Walters, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Angus Whyte, Digital Curation Centre
  • Max Wilkinson, University College London
  • Andrew Wilson, Senior Data Policy Advisor, Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
  • Matthew Woollard, UK Data Archive, University of Essex
  • Richard Wright, Research & Development, BBC Future Media & Technology

 

IJDC Editorial Guidelines

A peer-reviewed paper should be original and innovative, probably analytical in approach. It should include or reference significant evidence (whether experimental, observational or textual) to support its conclusions. Subject matter could be policy, strategic, operational, experimental, infrastructural, tool-based (etc.), but the key elements are originality and evidence. Layout and structure should be appropriate for the disciplinary area. Research papers should not have been published in their current or a very similar form before, other than as a pre-print in a repository or as a conference paper with limited circulation beyond the conference attendees. A paper MUST have been accepted by at least one member of the Editorial Board before publication in IJDC as a peer-reviewed paper.

A general article is descriptive, e.g. of some relevant event, activity, research  project in progress, or approach. It may present a proposal, e.g. for an architecture, an implementation, a service, project, etc. General articles may also be opinion pieces, reviews or surveys of existing work in some particular area. General articles must, in the opinion of the editorial team, convey information of value to the readership, and may include documents offered but not accepted as peer-reviewed papers. A degree of light review may be required on some categories of general articles, e.g. for relevance, completeness and/or bias.

 



The International Journal of Digital Curation. ISSN: 1746-8256
The IJDC is published by UKOLN at the University of Bath
and is a publication of the Digital Curation Centre.