ElPub2020: 24th International Conference on Electronic Publishing

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ElPub2020: 24th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Charting the Future(s) of Digital Publishing

UCL Qatar

Doha, Qatar, April 18-21, 2020

Conference website	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/qatar/public-engagement/events-ucl-qatar/24th-international-conference-electronic-publishing
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elpub2020
Abstract registration deadline	December 30, 2019
Submission deadline	December 30, 2019

Topics: methods for predicting the future technological changes content changes human changes

Welcome to the 24th edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub) 2020. In the year which precedes the quarter-century anniversary of ElPub bringing together academics, educators, learners and practitioners exploring the various aspects of digital transmission of human knowledge, this edition of the conference will offer a forum for discussing the trends which are currently changing the digital publishing landscape.

The conference will take place between 19 and 21 April 2020 at UCL Qatar in Doha, Qatar. This is the first edition of the conference in the Middle East - a region with a growing commitment to open access and open science

List of Topics

Theoretical aspects
- Methods to forecast future trends in digital publishing
- Driving forces for changing the digital publishing landscape
- New insights into readers and reading
- Synergies of publishing and media
- The evolution of business models in digital publishing
- Regulation of publishing
- Digital divide and the future digital publishing
New technological developments
- Artificial Intelligence and scholarly publishing
- Mobile publishing
- Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in publishing
- Social networks and publishing
- Tools for measuring quality in digital publishing and emerging metrics
Digital publishing, openness and academia
- Digital publishing reshaped by open access and open science
- Self-publishing
- Publishing, metrics and research evaluation
New roles of libraries
- Libraries as publishers
- Data publication and management
- Innovation labs for experimentation with digital content
- New ways of supporting scholars and learners
Coping with scale
- Scholarly communication infrastructures and publishing
- Big scale digital publishing
- Publishing and managing big data
Skills
- New professional skills for the future of publishing
- Digital publishing and new literacies
Other relevant topics

Submission Guidelines

Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elpub2020

We invite submissions in the form of an extended abstract (templates are available on the submission page). All submissions will undergo a double reference process. Authors whose abstracts have passed the first round of peer-review will be invited to submit full papers.

For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the conference to present the paper. The same requirement applies for inclusion in the proceedings. Moreover, all those with accepted workshop or demonstration proposals must commit to supporting the event (speakers, lecturers, panel members, etc.) by physically attending and coordinating their activity.

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome (please note that these are the lengths of the final versions of accepted papers; the initial submission is of an extended abstract of up to 1500 words):

Type of submission	OA proceedings	OA volume
Full papers (manuscript up to 5,600 words)	Yes	Selected best papers
Short papers (manuscript up to 3,300 words)	Yes	Selected best papers
Practitioner and Developer papers (extended abstract up to 1500 words for presentation at the conference without subsequent publication)	Yes	No
Posters (extended abstract up to 1500 words)	Yes	No
Proposals for workshops and tutorials (extended abstract up to 1500 words)	Yes	No

This call for papers invites the submission of extended abstracts which must be between 1,000 – 1,500 words and contain:

1. Title of the paper

2. Author name(s) and affiliation(s)

3. Email

4. Type of paper you plan to submit (e.g. Full paper, short paper, practitioner’s paper, poster, workshop)

5. Key objectives of the study and significance

6. Design and Methodology

7. An overview of the state of the art in the field

8. Outcomes

9. A bibliography

10. Keywords (maximum five)

Accepted proposals should ensure that final papers are formatted according to our recommended template.

Please submit your extended abstract here.

Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elpub2020

Committees

General Chair: Dr Milena Dobreva, UCL Qatar
Programme Chair: Dr Jadranka Stojanovski, University of Zadar, Croatia
Publication Chair: Pierre Mounier (OpenEdition, France)
Bursaries Chairs: Dr Leslie Chan (University of Toronto, Canada), Armin Straube (UCL Qatar)

Confirmed Programme Committee Members

Sultan Al-Daihani	Kuwait University, Dept. of Information Studies	Kuwait
Leslie Chan	University of Toronto	Toronto
Sely Costa	University of Brasilia	Brasilia
Suzanne Dumouchel	DARIAH	France
Okasha Eldaly	Qatar University Press	Qatar
Jan Engelen	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium
Elena Giglia	University of Turin	Italy
Fernando Loizides	Cardiff University	UK
Nevzat Özel	Ankara University	Turkey
Georgios Papaioannou	UCL Qatar, MGP	Qatar
Panayiota Polydoratou	ATEI of Thessaloniki	Greece
Peter Linde	Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona (BTH)	Sweden
Dalal Rahme	American University of Beirut	Lebanon
Martyn Rittman	MDPI AG	Switzerland
Laurent Romary	INRIA & HUB-ISDL	France
Armin Straube	UCL Qatar, LIS	Qatar
Hussein Suleman	University of Cape Town	South Africa
Marcin Werla	Qatar National Library	Qatar

Invited Speakers

TBC

Publication

We are negotiating to publish the accepted papers in indexed full open access (OA) proceedings by OpenEdition Press on the Episciences platform with an option for immediate publication of the preprint on the HAL platform. The intention is for the best papers to be published in a freemium open access edited volume on the OpenEdition Books platform, and made available in print format through print on demand. All accepted papers and posters will be archived at the ELPUB Digital Library. All contents published in the ELPUB proceedings are open access via the conference archive under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

Papers submitted to this conference must not have been accepted or be under review by another conference. All full papers, short papers and posters should be written in English as a lingua franca (ELF), though other languages would also be considered, provided that an ELF translation of the abstract is also made available.

English as a lingua franca

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Venue

The conference will be held in UCL Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Milena Dobreva, m.dobreva @ ucl.ac.uk (General Chair) or Dr. Jadranka Stojanovski, jadranka @ irb.hr (Program Chair).