UKSG - Serials - mobile technology supplement - CALL FOR PAPERS

["Bev Acreman" <Bev.Acreman@biomedcentral.com>]

**With Apologies for Cross-Posting**

UKSG (www.uksg.org) will publish a special supplement on mobile 
technologies to run alongside the November 2011 issue of Serials: 
the journal for the international serials community.  This is a 
call out for innovative papers on all aspects of the subject of 
mobile technologies in scholarly communication.

Coverage includes, but is not limited to:

-business opportunities, business development and business models

-copyright, licensing and authentication issues

-technical challenges

-case studies: use by library, use in teaching and curriculum 
development, or use by researchers in the field

Submission

Please contact Ally Souster (ally@uksg.org) for a copy of the 
Notes for Contributors or see 
www.uksg.org/sites/uksg.org/files/notesforcontributors-full%2009/pdf

In the first instance the editors (Lorraine Estelle and Steve 
Sharp) invite you to submit an abstract of 150 words by Monday 
28th February 2011.  Please email this, along with the author 
details, to ally@uksg.org. Abstracts will be reviewed by the 
international Serials editorial board and authors whose abstracts 
are accepted will be invited to write up articles in April with 
final manuscripts of between 2,000 and 3,000 words due on 18th 
July 2011.  Please note all submissions will be subject to blind 
peer review and may be rejected if they are deemed unsuitable or 
too close in subject matter to another accepted article.

Authors should note that Serials may seek commercial sponsorship 
to enable as many papers as possible to be made open access. 
Should authors not wish to have their articles sponsored by a 
commercial organisation, please tell the Editors on submission of 
your abstract.

Sent on behalf of:

Lorraine Estelle, JISC Collections
Steve Sharp, University of Leeds