Open Knowledge Management in Higher Education
Special issue call for papers from Online Information Review
The Guest Editors for this Special Issue invite papers addressing the theme of Open Knowledge penetration and management in universities and other higher education institutions from the perspective of online information.
Rationale
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities is the strongest promotion of the open knowledge paradigm. Nowadays, more than 250 institutions (governments, universities, research institutions, funding agencies, foundations, libraries, museums, archives, learned societies and professional associations) have signed this Declaration. Also, the MIT OpenCourseWare, the Open Educational Resources movements, as OER Commons, the Cape Town Open Education Declaration with the subject “Unlocking the promise of open educational resources” and the European Union guidelines about the distribution of the research results through open repositories are obvious examples of the real impact of the Open Knowledge paradigm in higher education institutions, especially universities.
In this context the Internet plays a clear and important role because it has fundamentally changed the practical and economic realities of distributing scientific knowledge. This means new challenges for educational institutions and also for researchers and educators.
This Special Issue of Online Information Review is devoted to the question of how higher education institutions deal and should deal with Open Knowledge approaches. This includes a wide spectrum of topics, but we are especially interested in current practices to manage this new paradigm that is quickly taking root in the scientific community. According to the scope of Online Information Review, this means to emphasise how this “open knowledge” changes or influences online information, including both transactional and transformational aspects within the higher education context.
Topics
Areas for inclusion in this special issue comprise those related to Open Knowledge, with a particular focus on online and digital information creation, storage, retrieval and applications (including social, political and ethical aspects). Every submission must spell out the implications of findings in the paper for online information as distinct from implications for education. Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Open archive repositories (digital information creation, storage, retrieval and applications)
- Metadata approaches in open repositories
- Searching issues in open repositories
- Web 2.0 and Open Knowledge
- Open Knowledge enablers and barriers
- Authoring rights and copyright licenses
- Open Education resource management
- Open Knowledge management
- Current practices
Scientific Committee
Adriana Berlanga, Open University of The Netherlands
Lex Bijlsma, Open University of The Netherlands
Carlos Castaño, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Ángel Fidalgo, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Faraón Llorens, University of Alicante, Spain
Nikos Manouselis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Patrick McAndrew, The Open University, UK
Gorka Palacio, University of the Basque Country, Spain
José Adriano Pires, ESTIG, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
Eloy Rodrigues, University of Mihno, Portugal
María José Rodríguez Conde, University of Salamanca, Spain
Esperanza Román, George Mason University, USA
Enrique Rubio, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
German Ruipérez, Spanish National Open University (UNED), Spain
Peter B. Sloep, Open University of The Netherlands
Cristóbal Suárez, Scopeo, Perú
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: 30 October 2009
Feedback from reviewers: 14 December 2009
Revised manuscripts: 12 January 2010
Acceptance notification: 20 January 2010
Camera-ready submissions: 02 February 2010
Expected publication date: 2010
Submission Guidelines
All papers will be double-blind peer reviewed. Articles should not normally exceed 6000 words
including references. References must be in the Emerald house style, and a structured abstract plus brief
author bio data must accompany each submission.
All papers should be submitted using the online submission system, Manuscript Central.
Guidelines for submission of papers can be found at
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=oir.
Guest Editors
Dr. Francisco J. García-Peñalvo
Computer Science Department
Vice-rector of Technology Innovation
University of Salamanca
fgarcia@usal.es
Dr. Carlos García de Figuerola
Computer Science Department
Open Knowledge Office Director
University of Salamanca
figue@usal.es
Dr. José Antonio Merlo
Library Science and Documentation Department
Library Service Director
University of Salamanca
merlo@usal.es