[ecrea] II Communicating Science: Emerging Publication Models

CALL FOR PAPERS

II Communicating Science: Emerging Publication Models

We invite you to present your abstract to the 2nd International 
Conference Communicating Science, that will take place at the Faculty of 
Arts and Letters of Unversidade da Beira Interior on the 21th and 22th 
of May 2015.?The abstract should be 500 words maximum and the deadline 
to submit ends on March 10th 2015.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 10th: abstract submission March 20: speakers notification April 
20: full paper submission

This international conference is organized by Labcom at Universidade da 
Beira Interior. Keynote Speakers include, among others, Jeffrey Beall, 
Allen Wilhite, Félix Moya Anegon, Moisés Matins.

Selection criteria: papers will be subject to a double blind peer review 
process.

Topics of Interest

• Science Publication / Arts and Humanities Publication ?

• Peer-review ?

• Open Access ?

• Predatory publishing/predatory editors ?

• Libraries and virtualization ?

• Producing and editing academic journals ?

• Bibliometrics and science evaluation ?

• Design and visual display of scientific data ?

• Communicating science to scientists and to the general public ?

• Qualitative indexes, directorys and journal databases ?

• Information and knowledge management ?

• Data mining ?

• Altmetrics and online academic tools ?

• Scientific publication’s future ?Working Languages: Portuguese, 
English, Spanish, and French. ?Conference outputs: Papers presented at 
the conference will be published in a special issue of the journal 
Communication Studies (ISSN: 1646-4974) currently indexed in Scielo, 
DoaJ, EBSCO, Latindex, Ulrich, and under review by Scopus and Web of 
Science. ?Selected papers will be published in a book (not proceedings) 
with english and portuguese editions. These volumes will have a 
paperback edition, and an Open Access electronic edition, to maximise 
dissemination. ?

For further information about sub-themes, criteria and process visit 
http://www.comunicarciencia.ubi.pt/conferencia/index.html?For further 
inquiry into the conference contact: (agradim /at/ ubi.pt) / 
(catarinamoura /at/ gmail.com)




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