AIDAinformazioni:RivistadiScienzedell’Informazione
Invitationforpapersubmission
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
A new issue of AIDAinformazioni: Rivista di Scienze dell’Informazione will be
published in December 2015 (number 3-4/2015, 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
AIDAinformazioni: Rivista di Scienze dell’Informazione is a peer-reviewed journal
that publishes articles related to Information Science, Document Management,
Knowledge Organization and Computational Linguistics.
AIDAinformazioni 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.
AIDAinformazioni 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
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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.
AIDAinformazioni 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, AIDAinformazioni
(Committee On Publication Ethics) Guidelines
(http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines).
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to
the
COPE
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 09 October 2015
Acceptance notification: 09 November 2015
Camera ready: 23 November 2015
Issue date of publication: December 2015
Publication frequency: semi-annual journal, with issues published in June and
December.
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:
 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
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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.
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:
Maria Teresa Chiaravalloti, ICAR-CNR
Antonietta Folino, University of Calabria
Erika Pasceri, IIT-CNR
Maria Taverniti, IIT-CNR
Editorial secretary:
Valeria Rovella, University of Calabria