International Journal of Digital Curation

Focus and Scope

The IJDC is entirely devoted to papers, articles and news items on curation of digital objects and related issues. The journal is published in electronic form, two times a year.

Section Policies

Editorial

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Papers (Peer-reviewed)

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Publication Frequency

IJDC is published two times a year.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

IJDC Editorial Board

The current list of Editorial Board Members is as follows:

Chief Editor: Kevin Ashley, Digital Curation Centre

Sheila Anderson, Centre for e-Research, Kings College London
Malcolm Atkinson, National e-Science Centre
Alex Ball, UKOLN, University of Bath
Christine Borgman, Department of Information Studies, University of California
David Britton, University of Glasgow (GridPP)
Peter Buneman, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Adrian Burton, Australian Partnership for Sustainable Resources
Andrew Charlesworth, Centre of IT and Law, University Of Bristol
Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Danish State Library
Simon Coles, University of Southampton
Melissa Cragin, University of Illinois
Patricia Cruse, University of California
Michael Day, UKOLN, University of Bath
David De Roure, University of Southampton
Matthew Dovey, JISC
Adam Farquhar, British Library
Peter Halfpenny, National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester
Lorna Hughes, Centre for e-Research, Kings College London
Jane Hunter, The School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland
Paul Jeffreys, University of Oxford
William Kilbride, Digital Preservation Coalition
Carl Lagoze, Information Science, Cornell University
Julia Lane, National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago
Bryan Lawrence, British Atmospheric Data Centre
Michael Lesk, Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University
Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Liz Lyon, UKOLN, University of Bath
Bob Mann, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Reagan Moore, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Heike Neuroth, University of Göttingen
Maureen Pennock, British Library
Sam Pepler, British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC)
Andy Powell, Eduserv Foundation
Rob Procter, National Centre for e-Social Science
Graham Pryor, Digital Curation Centre
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology
Joyce Ray, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
David Rosenthal, Stanford University
Seamus Ross, University of Toronto
Chris Rusbridge, Independent Consultant
Richard Sinnott, National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow
MacKenzie Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manfred Thaller, University of Cologne
Helen Tibbo, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Andrew Treloar, Monash University
Bill Underwood, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Tyler O. Walters, Georgia Institute of Technology
Angus Whyte, Digital Curation Centre
Andrew Wilson, Senior Data Policy Advisor, Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
Matthew Woollard, UK Data Archive, University of Essex
Richard Wright, Research & Development, BBC Future Media & Technology

IJDC Editorial Guidelines

A peer-reviewed paper should be original and innovative, probably analytical in approach. It should include or reference significant evidence (whether experimental, observational or textual) to support its conclusions. Subject matter could be policy, strategic, operational, experimental, infrastructural, tool-based (etc), but the key elements are originality and evidence. Layout and structure should be appropriate for the disciplinary area. Research papers should not have been published in their current or a very similar form before, other than as a pre-print in a repository or as a conference paper with limited circulation beyond the conference attendees. A paper MUST have been accepted by at least one member of the Editorial Board before publication in IJDC as a peer-reviewed paper.

A general article is descriptive, eg of some relevant event, activity, research  project in progress, or approach. It may present a proposal, eg for an architecture, an implementation, a service, project, etc. General articles may also be opinion pieces, reviews or surveys of existing work in some particular area. General articles must, in the opinion of the editorial team, convey information of value to the readership,, and may include documents offered but not accepted as peer-reviewed papers. A degree of light review may be required on some categories of general articles, eg for relevance, completeness and/or bias.