20th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub)

The International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub) reaches its 20th anniversary! Elpub 2016 continues the tradition, and brings together scholars, publishers, lecturers, librarians, developers, entrepreneurs, users and all other stakeholders interested in issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts.

Call for papers

Topics include but are not restricted to:

Enhancing publishing, access and reuse
– Publishing models on the move (business and funding models, tools, services and roles)
– Open access revisited (publishing solutions, mandates and compliance, licenses, recommendations, disciplinary initiatives)
– New publishing paradigm (data publishing and citation, open pre/post publication peer review, executable papers, nano-publications)
– Interoperability and standards (metadata, identifier, vocabularies, repository integration, scalability, middleware infrastructure)

Quality, trust, skills and competencies
– Research integrity (authorship and contributor roles, scientific rigor, fraud and paper retraction, reproducible research)
– Ethical and legal issues (authority, reliability, trust, copyright, privacy)
– New types of quality assurance (user comments, pre/post publication (open) peer review, etc.)
– Maintaining high quality standards (cost transparency, management and monitoring of publication costs)

Transforming digital collections
– Digital collections as data, from processing and visualisation to data citation and new types of publications
– User engagement and interaction (strategies and incentives, models for participatory projects/experiments, data quality and management, open science, crowd-sourcing)

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[rouge]Important dates[/rouge]

26 October 2015: Call for papers

1 November 2015: Submission site open

10 January 2016: Submission deadline

8 February 2016: Author decision notification

7 March 2016: Submission of camera ready version

15 April 2016: Early bird registration deadline

20 May 2016: Final registration deadline

7–9 June 2016: Conference