期刊名称：JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The Journal of Documentation has the unique perspective of focusing on theories, concepts, models, frameworks, and philosophies in the information sciences. The Journal publishes articles on the methodology of research, and the results of research projects, as well as on reflections on practice, historical articles, and items on education and training for information use. Critical reviews of the literature in subject areas of interest, and reviews of the evidence-base for professional practice, are welcome, as are articles dealing with analogies and comparisons between concepts of information and knowledge in different domains, for example between human information and information physics.
Scope
The scope of the Journal of Documentation is broadly 'information studies', encompassing all of the academic and professional disciplines which deal with recorded information. These include, but are certainly not limited to:
- information science and librarianship
- information and knowledge management, and information retrieval
- records management and archiving
- national and international information policy
- human information behaviour and the sociology of information
- information and digital literacies
Instructions to Authors
Copyright
Articles submitted to the journal should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. Authors submitting articles for publication warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and will indemnify the publisher against any breach of such warranty. For ease of dissemination and to ensure proper policing of use, papers and contributions become the legal copyright of the publisher unless otherwise agreed.
Submissions should be sent preferably by e-mail, to the Editor for initial evaluation. If articles are suitable for review, authors will be asked to submit via JADE - the new Emerald online content management system.
The Editor
Dr David Bawden
E-mail: dbawden@soi.city.ac.uk
Postal address :
Journal of Documentation
Emerald
60-62 Toller Lane
Bradford
BD8 9BY
United Kingdom
Aims
The aim of the Journal of Documentation is to provide a forum for the dissemination of scholarly articles, research reports and critical reviews in the information sciences. In doing so, it provides a link between research and scholarship and reflective professional practice, so that both are informed and enhanced.
Perspective
The Journal of Documentation has the unique perspective of focusing on theories, concepts, models, frameworks, and philosophies in the information sciences.
The Journal also publishes articles on the methodology of research, and the results of research projects, as well as on reflections on practice, historical articles, and items on education and training for information use. Critical reviews of the literature in subject areas of interest, and reviews of the evidence-base for professional practice, are welcome, as are articles dealing with analogies and comparisons between concepts of information and knowledge in different domains, for example between human information and information physics.
Scope
The scope of the Journal of Documentation is broadly 'information studies', encompassing all of the academic and professional disciplines which deal with recorded information. These include, but are certainly not limited to:
information science and librarianship
information and knowledge management, and information retrieval
records management and archiving
national and international information policy
human information behaviour and the sociology of information
information and digital literacies
The Journal is inclusive in its scope, and welcomes contributions from any subject area where the focus is on the concepts and frameworks for understanding, and helping to manage, knowledge and information.
Readership
The primary readership is:
educators, researchers and advanced students in the information sciences
reflective practitioners in the information professions
policy makers and funders in information-related areas
The Journal's content will also be of value to scholars and students in many related subject areas.
The Journal offers authors
a high impact and very well-known and respected platform
rigorous, but constructive, review and criticism by international experts
effective dissemination and publicity
support for self-archiving
support for authors through Emerald's Literati Club
The reviewing process
All articles are subject to rigorous double blind peer review.
Emerald Literati Editing Service
The Literati Club can recommend the services of a number of freelance copy editors, all themselves experienced authors, to contributors who wish to improve the standard of English in their paper before submission. This is particularly useful for those whose first language is not English.
www.emeraldinsight.com/editingservice
Manuscript requirements
The manuscript should be submitted as a Word or rtf document, formatted with double line spacing with wide margins. All authors should be shown and author's details must be printed on a separate sheet and the author should not be identified anywhere else in the article.
As a guide, articles should be between 3,000 and 10,000 words in length. A title of not more than eight words should be provided. A brief autobiographical note should be supplied including full name, affiliation, e-mail address and full international contact details. Authors must supply a structured abstract set out under 4-6 sub-headings: Purpose; Methodology/Approach; Findings; Research limitations/implications (if applicable); Practical implications (if applicable); and, the Originality/value of paper. Maximum is 250 words in total. In addition provide up to six keywords which encapsulate the principal topics of the paper and categorise your paper under one of these classifications: Research paper, Viewpoint, Technical paper, Conceptual paper, Case study, Literature review or General review. For more information and guidance on structured abstracts visit: www.emeraldinsight.com/structuredabstracts
Where there is a methodology, it should be clearly described under a separate heading. Headings must be short, clearly defined and not numbered. Notes or Endnotes should be used only if absolutely necessary and must be identified in the text by consecutive numbers, enclosed in square brackets and listed at the end of the article.
Figures, charts and diagrams should be kept to a minimum. They should be provided both electronically and as good quality originals. They must be black and white with minimum shading and numbered consecutively using arabic numerals.
Artwork should be either copied and pasted from the origination software into a blank Microsoft Word document, or saved and imported into a blank Microsoft Word document. Artwork created in MS Powerpoint is also acceptable. Artwork may be submitted in the following standard image formats: .eps - Postscript, .pdf - Adobe Acrobat portable document, .ai - Adobe Illustrator, .wmf - Windows Metafile. If it is not possible to supply graphics in the formats listed above, authors should ensure that figures supplied as .tif, .gif, .jpeg, .bmp, .pcx, .pic, .pct are supplied as files of at least 300dpi and at least 10cm wide.
In the text the position of a figure should be shown by typing on a separate line the words "take in Figure 2". Supply succinct captions. For photographic images good quality original photographs should be submitted. If submitted electronically they should be saved as tif files of at least 300dpi, and at least 10cm wide. Their position in the text should be shown by typing on a separate line the words "take in Plate 2".
Tables should be kept to a minimum. They must be numbered consecutively with roman numerals and a brief title. In the text, the position of the table should be shown by typing on a separate line the words "take in Table IV".
References to other publications must be in Harvard style. That is, shown within the text as the first author's name followed by a comma and year of publication all in round brackets, e.g. (Fox, 1994). At the end of the article a reference list in alphabetical order must be given as follows:
For books: surname, initials, (year) title, publisher, place of publication, e.g. Casson, M. (1979), Alternatives to the Multinational Enterprise, Macmillan, London.
For journals: surname, initials, (year) "title", journal, volume, number, pages, e.g. Fox, S. (1994), "Empowerment as a catalyst for change: an example from the food industry", Supply Chain Management, Vol. 2 No. 3, pp. 29-33.
Final submission of the article
Once accepted for publication, the final version of the manuscript must be provided, accompanied by a 3.5" disk, Zip disk or CD-ROM of the same version labelled with: disk format (Macintosh or PC); author name(s); title of article; journal title; file name.
Alternatively, the editor may request the final version as an attached file to an e-mail.
Each article must be accompanied by a completed and signed Journal Article Record Form available from the Editor or at
www.emeraldinsight.com/jarform
The manuscript will be considered to be the definitive version of the article. The author must ensure that it is complete, grammatically correct and without spelling or typographical errors.
In preparing the disk, please use one of the following preferred formats: Word, Word Perfect, Rich text format or TeX/LaTeX. Technical assistance is available by contacting Mike Massey at Emerald, e-mail mmassey@emeraldinsight.com
Final submission requirements
Manuscripts must:
be clean, good quality hard copy
include an abstract and keywords
have Harvard style references
include any figures, photos and graphics electronically and as good quality originals
be accompanied by a labelled disk
be accompanied by a completed Journal Article Record Form
Editorial Board
Editor
Managing Editor
Dr David Bawden
Department of Information Science,
City UniversityLondon,
UK
E-mail: db@soi.city.ac.uk
Diane Heath
E-mail: dheath@emeraldinsight.com
Editorial Advisory Board
Tatjana Aparac-Jelu?ic
Professor of Library Science,
University of Osijek,
Croatia
E-mail: benja@ri.htnet.hr
Maria E. Burke
Lecturer,
Information Systems Institute,
University of Salford,
UK
E-mail: m.e.burke@salford.ac.uk
Marianna Tax Choldin
Director and Distinguished Professor,
Mortensen Center for International Library Programs,
University of Illinois,
USA
E-mail: mcholdin@ameritech.net
Gobinda Chowdhury
Senior Lecturer,
Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Computer and Information Science,
University of Strathclyde,
UK
E-mail: gobinda.chowdhury@cis.strath.ac.uk
Nigel Ford
Professor of Information Science,
Department of Information Studies,
University of Sheffield,
UK
E-mail: n.ford@sheffield.ac.uk
Birger Hjørland
Professor,
Royal School of Library and Information Science,
Denmark
E-mail: bh@db.dk
Marian Koren
Head of Research,
Netherlands Public Library Association,
The Netherlands
E-mail: koren@debibliotheken.nl
Julie McLeod
Senior Lecturer,
School of Informatics,
Northumbria University,
UK
Ramune Petuchovaite
Faculty of Communication,
Vilnius University,
Lithuania
Niels Ole Pors
Associate Professor,
Royal School of Library and Information Science,
Denmark
E-mail: nop@db.dk
Ian Rowlands
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Information Science,
City University,
UK
E-mail: ir@soi.city.ac.uk
Amanda Spink
Professor of Information Technology,
School of Information Systems,
Queemsland University of Technology,
Australia
Paul Sturges
Reader and Deputy Head,
Department of Information Science,
Loughborough University,
UK
E-mail: r.p.sturges@lboro.ac.uk
Martin Svoboda
Director,
State Technical Library,
Prague,
Czech Republic
E-mail: m.svoboda@stk.cz
Christine Urquhart
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Information and Library Studies,
University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
UK
E-mail: cju@aber.ac.uk
Pertti Vakkari
Professor,
Department of Information Studies,
University of Tampere,
Finland
E-mail: Pertti.Vakkari@uta.fi
Berenika Webster
Senior Lecturer,
School of Information Management,
Victoria University of Wellington,
New Zealand
E-mail: berenika.webster@vuw.ac.nz
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