[Air-l] AoIR executive subcommittee report re publishing

[elw at stderr.org]

> The AoIR annual has ceased publication. We have been able to arrange 
> with the journal Information, Communication and Society (ICS) to publish 
> a special issue of selected AoIR conference papers each year, to appear 
> in January of the following year. Editorship for this year is Caroline 
> Haythornthwaite (for AoIR) and Barry Wellman (N.American editor of ICS). 
> Future editorship will be for a 3

>> 3. An annual AoIR conference workshop on writing and publication: 
>> Recommend for 2007 and each year after
>>
>> We recommend the establishment of a yearly workshop to be held at the 
>> AoIR conference particularly focused on issues of writing and 
>> publication of the type of work accepted for the AoIR conference. This 
>> responds to concerns for support for students and new faculty about how 
>> to get their AoIR-related work published. The workshop would be


These sound like great moves!

Thanks, Caroline, Barry, and subcommittee members!

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