[Air-l] Call For Proposals-CDDC

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

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The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture(CDDC) is announcing an  
expanded call for proposal for our Research E-ditions, Hosting  
Services, and our new Digital Originals publishing series.

CDDC in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia  
Polytechnic Institute and State University is accepting new  
manuscripts for digital modes of publication in its Research E- 
ditions series. The CDDC ( http://www.cddc.vt.edu ) has been in  
operation for nearly two years, and it publishes hypertext journals,  
hosts digital research archives, and cooperates with many  
international cyberculture organizations.

As an entirely digital point-of-publication, the CDDC will review and  
then produce professional academic research works--either single- 
authored or edited collections--in a digital format. Proposals could  
take the form of an "e-book" that simply makes available a scholarly  
monograph in online format, or a collection of academic papers  
organized around a central theme, or a fully hypertextual experiment  
with new forms of digital discourse. Arrangements can be made for  
"print on demand" (POD) paper versions of these works, but the main  
focus of the CDDC is to explore the new communicative potentials of  
hypertext, hypermedia, and web-centered publication. The review  
processes will be as extensive and rigorous as those experienced in  
print academic communication, but it too will be conducted in a fully  
on-line format.


Research E-ditions
All topics are potentially of interest in the Research E-ditions  
series, however, we are particularly interested in manuscripts,  
digital archives, and hypertexts from the humanities and social  
sciences relating to the areas of cyberculture, social theory,  
literary studies, digital art, and cultural studies. In addition, the  
CDDC is committed to proposals from applied and natural sciences that  
relate directly to the fields of bioinformatics, energy and  
environmental studies, and information technology and communications.

Hosting at CDDC
All topics and projects of academic interest that require hosting are  
solicited for the Hosting at CDDC project.  We host and mirror several  
major projects and have space for many more.   We host projects  
serving a broad set of communities.  We provide basic facilities of  
web hosting and listserv hosting.  Any requirements beyond basic  
hosting should be outlined in the proposal.  Hosting is frequently  
used in conjuction with various forms of community software, e- 
journal software, or related software to support artistic, academic,  
and related content.

Digital Originals
Digital Originals is open access publishing for book-like digital  
projects.  We are soliciting submissions from people who have  
materials that originate in the digital arena, and want them to be  
released either under a Creative Commons license or under an Open  
Content License. The original documents will be peer-reviewed,  
edited, and published with an ISBN assigned and made freely  
downloadable on the CDDC Website.

Proposals:

Initial proposals should take the form of a 1 page description of the  
project, including a description of the services requested, a  
description of the project's audience, and provide current examples  
of the work (URLS) that is to be hosted or published.   All proposals  
will be peer reviewed with at least two reviewers and further  
information may be requested.  The review process is as rigorous as  
any academic publisher.

Proposals should be sent to CDDC at vt.edu

Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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