From: Mike Worboys <[email protected]> Dear colleagues
*** With apologies for cross postings *** Many of you have commented on the importance of an on-line, open- access journal in the field of spatial information science. As a response, we are pleased to announce today the creation of the a new, international, open access journal: The Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS) ***************** http://josis.org ***************** JOSIS: * publishes research spanning the theoretical foundations of spatial and geographical information science, through computation with geospatial information, to technologies for geographical information use; * provides immediate, free, and open access to its content, making research freely available to the public and supporting the global exchange of knowledge; * has an international editorial board containing many of the world's leading researchers in the field; * aims to publish the highest quality papers in the field within the shortest possible time in review; * contains a discussion forum that hosts authors' original manuscripts during formal peer review, thus providing wide-ranging but moderated feedback to authors; * provides secure archiving to ensure permanence of all its published research; and * subscribes to the Creative Commons copyrighting system where authors retain the copyright to their work and grant the journal permission to publish. Our aspiration is to make this the best journal in our field, in terms of the technical quality of its papers, but also due to its novel format. For example, papers may be discussed before being formally accepted, and under "Announcements" there is room to post conferences, vacant positions, courses, and other news. Please pass the word around. You will find a flyer also available for download at our website ************************************** http://josis.org/files/josis-flyer.pdf ************************************** We hope that you will engage in this community-based effort by submitting high-quality papers and acting as reviewer and/or contributor to the forum. JOSIS Editors-in-Chief Matt Duckham, University of Melbourne,Australia [email protected] Jörg-Rüdiger Sack, Carleton University, Canada joerg @josis.org Michael Worboys, University of Maine, USA [email protected] _______________________________________________ Iscriviti all'associazione GFOSS.it: http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/iscrizione [email protected] http://lists.faunalia.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gfoss Questa e' una lista di discussione pubblica aperta a tutti. I messaggi di questa lista non rispecchiano necessariamente le posizioni dell'Associazione GFOSS.it.
