Curation and preservation related journals

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International Journal of Digital Curation
The International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC) is an electronic journal entirely devoted to papers, articles and news items on the curation of digital objects and related issues. Published twice a year, it features cutting-edge articles by key figures in the field, as well as reflecting the current mood within the digital curation community. 

Although the journal is a DCC publication, it provides an international and non-partisan vehicle for the discussion of preservation and curation issues. The journal also provides pointers to current events, programmes, projects, and relevant papers published elsewhere. We hope that the journal will become obligatory reading for everyone working in the field of digital curation.

Ariadne

Ariadne is a web magazine for information professionals in archives, libraries and museums in all sectors. Since its inception in January 1996 it has attempted to keep the busy practitioner abreast of current digital library initiatives as well as technological developments further afield. It concentrated originally on reporting in depth to the information community at large on progress and developments within the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), covering matters such as information service developments and information networking issues worldwide. It now additionally reports on newer JISC-funded programmes and services as well as developments in the field of Museums, Libraries and Archives within the UK and abroad. It is published by UKOLN every three months across the year beginning in January. Ariadne generally seeks to inform readers with a variety of articles in each issue, some technical, some of a more strategic nature, in the anticipation that most readers will find something of relevance to their work or interests in every issue.

D-lib magazine

D-Lib Magazine is a solely electronic publication with a primary focus on digital library research and development, including but not limited to new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues. The magazine is published eleven times a year and is released monthly, except for the July and August issues which are combined and released in July. The full contents of the magazine, including all back issues, are available free of charge at the D-Lib web site as well as multiple mirror sites around the world. The primary goal of the magazine is timely and efficient information exchange for the digital library community. To meet this goal, both the articles and the shorter pieces are solicited or selected from among unsolicited submissions.

First Monday

First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer-reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 795 papers in 132 issues; these papers were written by 951 different authors. In addition, eight special issues have appeared. The most recent special issue was entitled A Web site with a view &emdash The Third World on First Monday and it was edited by Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla. First Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, Computer & Communications Security Abstracts, DoIS, eGranary Digital Library, INSPEC, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, LISA, PAIS, and other services.

International Free and Open Source Software Law Review

The International Free and Open Source Software Law Review is a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open Source Software issues. Topics covered include copyright, licence implementation, licence interpretation, software patents, open standards, case law and statutory changes.

International Journal of Internet Research Ethics

The International Journal of Internet Research Ethics (IJIRE) is the first peer-reviewed online journal, dedicated specifically to cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural research on Internet Research Ethics. All disciplinary perspectives, from those in the arts and humanities, to the social, behavioural, and biomedical sciences, are reflected in the journal.

International Journal on Digital Libraries

The International Journal on Digital Libraries is a quarterly journal aimed at advancing the theory and practice of acquisition, definition, organization, management, and dissemination of digital information via global networking. It emphasizes issues in digital information production, management, and use; high-speed networks and connectivity; interoperability and seamless integration of information, people, profiles, tasks, and needs; security and privacy of individuals and business transactions; and effective business processes.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) serves as a forum for new research in information transfer and communication processes in general, and in the context of recorded knowledge in particular. Concerns include the generation, recording, distribution, storage, representation, retrieval, and dissemination of information, as well as its social impact and management of information agencies. There is a strong emphasis on new information technologies and methodologies in text analysis, computer based retrieval systems, measures of effectiveness, and the search for patterns and regularities in measures of existing communication systems. The orientation is toward quantitative experimental work, but significant qualitative and historical research is also welcome. Perspectives, a journal within the journal, containing collections of papers on single topics normally operationally practical in nature, is often included. Special topic issues are also often seen.

Journal of Digital Information

The Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal about the management, presentation and uses of information in digital environments. It is also covering research, technical, design and practical issues. The journal is aimed at researchers, developers and teachers, mainly but not only in technical disciplines, and also technical librarians and publishers.

Journal of Electronic Publishing

The Journal of Electronic Publishing is for the thoughtful forward-thinking publisher, librarian, scholar, or author facing the challenges of electronic publishing. It aims at ranging widely in its coverage, but the emphasis is on the broader issues that should shape policy, and on professional, scientific or academic publishing, both books and journals. The Journal of Electronic Publishing is neither quite a magazine nor a journal. It is both. The core of each issue is a set of short invited contributions from expert and experienced practitioners on a particular theme. That is more like a magazine. It also seeks out and encourages longer pieces from publishers and scholars and others who are thinking interestingly about electronic publishing. That is the journal.

Journal of Web Semantics

The Journal of Web Semantics approaches scientific publishing from a different angle by demanding more than just the production and printing of papers, but also the distribution of ontologies and running code. It tries to facilitate the development of the Semantic Web by publishing ontologies as well as open-source code — in addition to classical papers and research letters — enabling others to build upon this work.

SCRIPT-ed

SCRIPT-ed is an online, international, interdisciplinary and multi-lingual forum for articles, reports, commentaries, analysis, case and legislation critiques, and book reviews pertaining to law and technologies in the broadest sense.

World Digital Libraries

World Digital Libraries is a peer reviewed bi-annual journal on digital libraries that aims to advance the theory and practice of acquisition, organisation, management and dissemination of digital information on a sustainable basis. The journal seeks quality research papers that present original theoretical approaches as well as experimental case studies related to digital library development and maintenance. In doing so, it will keep readers abreast with current developments in the field.