AIDA Informazioni: Rivista di Scienze dell’Informazione
Invitation for paper submission
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
A new issue of AIDA Informazioni: Rivista di Scienze dell’Informazione will be
published in June 2015 (number 1/2015, year XXXIII).
You are kindly invited to submit original works which fall within the research
topics listed below.
Please contact us directly if you have any questions regarding submission or if
you have any suggestions.
Sincerely,
The Scientific Board
About the Journal
AIDA Informazioni: Rivista di Scienze dell’Informazione is a peer-reviewed journal
that publishes articles related to Information Science, Document Management,
Knowledge Organization and Computational Linguistics.
AIDA Informazioni was founded in 1983 as the official journal of the Associazione
Italiana di Documentazione Avanzata. Until 2010 (latest issue Number 3/4) it was
published quarterly both in paper (ISSN 1121-0095) and in digital format (ISSN
1594-2201).
In February 2014 the journal was acquired by the Laboratory of Documentation
of the University of Calabria and it will continue to be published half-yearly.
AIDA Informazioni is inserted in the list of scientific journals compiled by ANVUR
(Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca), the
Italian agency for research evaluation, for the competition areas 10 - Sciences of
Antiquity, Philology, Literature, History and Arts; 11 - Historical, Philosophical,
Pedagogic and Psychological Sciences; 12 - Juridical Sciences; 14 - Political and
social sciences), as well as in the list of scientific journals provided by the French
agency AERES (Agence d’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement
supérieur) for the field Information and Communication Sciences.
It is indexed and abstracted in: ACNP (Italian union catalogue of serials), BASE Bielefeld Academic Search Engine; EZB - Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek Universitätsbibliothek
Regensburg;
Italian
Library
AssociationItalian
Professional Literature; NewJour - Electronic Journals & Newsletters, University
of Georgetown; SBN - Italian union catalogue; SummonTM - by SerialsSolutions;
Ulrich's; Worldcat; KVK - Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog; EPrints; British Union
Catalog - COPAC; UniCiber - Comitato interuniversitario Base dati ed editoria in
rete; Union Catalogue of Swedish Libraries LIBRIS.
AIDA Informazioni publishes original articles concerning information and
Document management by extending its interest to related disciplines such as
Knowledge management, Terminology, Corpus linguistics, etc., in order to
promote interdisciplinary studies and cooperation and dialog among professional
profiles having different but interlinked competences. Papers could focus on
theoretical issues, on methodological aspects and results obtained in research
project activities, on the definition of original and innovative approaches, on state
of the art presentation, etc.
Concerning publication ethics, AIDA Informazioni refers to the COPE (Committee
On Publication Ethics) Guidelines
(http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines).
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 10 April 2015
Acceptance notification: 15 May 2015
Camera ready: 31 May 2015
Issue date of publication: June 2015
Publication frequency: semi-annual journal, with issues published in December
and June.
Full papers must be electronically submitted in MS-Word format to the following
e-mail address: [email protected]. Admitted languages are Italian,
English, French.
Topics
Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing original, previously
unpublished, not currently under review by conference or another journal, in
the broad range of topics listed below:
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Documentation science
Information and communication sciences
Library and Information sciences
Knowledge organization and management
Terminology
Statistical text analysis
Computational linguistics
Original research papers, experimental studies in specialized knowledge domains,
case studies, methodological aspects and results obtained in project research
activities, state of the art presentations, etc., will be welcomed and considered for
publication.
Editorial Guidelines
Papers must not exceed 15 pages, including figures, tables, abstracts and
bibliographic references. Please refer to the following sample schema for
formatting the paper:
 Title
 Authors names, affiliations (institution, town and country) and e-mail
address
 Abstract (no more than 150 words in the language of the paper and in
English)
 Keywords (no more than 5, in the language of the paper and in English);
 Introduction
 State of the art
 Methodological approach
 Conclusion and future work
 References
For more details authors can refer to Aracne Editrice editorial guidelines,
available at the following link: http://aidaweb.homepc.it/.
The respect of editorial guidelines is a mandatory requirement for paper
acceptance. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that their paper does not
contain any errors.
Peer-review
Papers will be evaluated according to double blind peer review system: papers
received by the scientific committee will be sent anonymously to two referees,
identified by considering their proved competence and experience in the topic of
the submitted paper. To this purpose, authors are required to specify the main
topic which their papers deal with.
Referees’ notification could be: positive; positive with request of modifications;
negative. In case of opposing opinions between referees, the final decision will be
taken by the scientific committee.
Criteria for the papers’ evaluation are:
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Clarity
Originality and innovativeness
Completeness and coherence
Knowledge of literature
Quality of research
 Implications and new insights for information science research and its
application
 Relevance to the established themes/topics
Authors will be informed in any case. Papers taken in consideration for
publication and handed back to the authors for reworking must be sent in their
final version in MS-Word format. If the number of accepted papers exceed the
maximum number of articles established for a given issue, they will be published
in the following one.
Accepted papers will be published in paper format by Aracne Editrice and in open
access format by Casalini Digital.
Scientific director:
Roberto Guarasci, University of Calabria
Managing Director:
Fabrizia Flavia Sernia, Journalist
Scientific Commettee:
Roberto Guarasci, University of Calabria
Anna Rovella, University of Calabria
Maria Guercio, Sapienza University of Rome
Giovanni Adamo, ILIESI-CNR
Claudio Gnoli, ISKO Italy
Ferruccio Diozzi, AIDA
Gino Roncaglia, University of Tuscia (Viterbo)
Laurence Favier, University Charles-de-Gaulle (Lille 3)
Madjid Ihadjadene, University of Paris 8
Editorial Board:
Antonietta Folino, University of Calabria
Erika Pasceri, IIT-CNR
Maria Taverniti, IIT-CNR
Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti, ICAR-CNR
Editorial secretary:
Valeria Rovella, University of Calabria