First Monday

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First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet ISSN: 1396-0466 (ONLINE) Journal metadata

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• Aims and scope
• Profile
• Editors
• Guide to authors
• Contact
• Call for papers

• Indexing

• Aims and scope

  First Monday is one of the first openly accessible peer review journals solely on the Internet, about the Internet. 

  First Monday publishes original research papers about the Internet and related technologies. 
  
  
  First Monday publishes articles on all aspects of the Internet, including comments on trends and standards, technical issues, political and social implications of the Internet, and educational uses. Its focus is simply on interesting and novel ideas related to the history, current use, and future of the Internet.
  

  
  

  
  

• Profile

  First Monday was born in the summer of 1995 in a proposal by eventual Chief Editor Edward J. Valauskas to the Danish publisher Munksgaard, to start a new Internet-only, peer-review journal about the Internet. 
  
  
  First Monday appears on the first Monday of each month. In addition, special issues may appear on the first Monday on each month or on an irregular basis.
  
  
  All of First Monday's current and archival content is available freely to anyone with Internet connectivity. Authors retain the rights to their work published in First Monday and may freely make their papers available as they see fit. Contributors to First Monday are encouraged to dedicate their work to the public domain or to select a Creative Commons license. Papers submitted to First Monday are examined by at least three reviewers for originality and timeliness in the context of related research. Reviews generally are completed in 30-60 days with publication in the next available monthly issue.

• Indexing

  First Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, Computer & Communications Security Abstracts, DoIS, eGranary Digital Library, INSPEC, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, LISA, PAIS, and other services.

• Editors

  Chief Editor
  Edward J Valauskas, Chief Editor, First Monday; ICIMSS, United States
  Consulting Editor
  Esther Dyson, United States
  Managing Editor
  Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
  Associate Editor
  Andreas Harsono, Indonesia
  Metadata Editor
  Robin Henshaw, United States
  
  
  Legal Editor
  Mary Minow, United States
  Book Review Editors:
  
  
  Paolo G. Cordone, Ireland
  Rob Vega, United States
  
  
  Art Editor
  Susan Bochenski, United States
  
  
  Podcast Editors:
  
  
  Joy Austria, United States
  A. J. Hannah, United States
  
  
  Editorial Board:
  
  
  Varol Akman, Bilkent University, Turkey
  Virgílio Almeida, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
  Ricardo Baeza–Yates, Universidad de Chile, Chile
  Vinton G. Cerf, Google, United States
  Ellen Christiansen, Aalborg University, Denmark
  Tony Durham, The Times Higher Education Supplement, United Kingdom
  Ahmed S. Kassem, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
  Ed Krol, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, United States
  Beth Simone Noveck, New York Law School, United States
  Andrew M. Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, United States
  Ian Peter, Australia
  Tony Rutkowski, United States
  Guido Sohne, Ghana
  Ilkka Tuomi, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Spain
  Naoki Ueno, National Institute for Educational Research, Japan, Japan
  Richard W. Wiggins, Michigan State University, United States
  Copy Editor
  Silvia Toccoli
  
  
  Technical Editor
  Nancy R. John, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
  
  

• Guide to authors

  Style Guidelines
  
  
  For general Internet writing style and usage, authors are encouraged to consult Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age, edited by Constance Hale (San Francisco: HardWired, 1996).
  For First Monday’s editorial purposes, please adhere to these style guidelines when referencing the following:
  
  
  Acronyms
  Explain each and every first occurrence.
  For example, state World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), allowing the use of WIPO later in the manuscript.
  
  
  Dates
  Dates should appear in date–month–year format, as in "The first issue of First Monday appeared on Monday, 6 May 1996."
  
  
  Electronic Mail
  Refer to electronic mail as e–mail or E–mail but not email or Email.
  
  
  Internet
  The Internet should be called the Internet, not the internet, the net, the Net, or the ’Net.
  
  
  Numbers
  The numbers zero through nine should be spelled out except when referring to data or measurements, such as "The figure measures 3 pixels by 2 pixels ...."
  All whole numbers above nine should appear as Arabic numerals, such as 10, 11, 12,....
  Ordinal numbers should be spelled out, as in twentieth.
  A number at the start of a sentence should be spelled out, as in " Fourteen search engines were examined .... "
  
  
  Percentages
  Write percent, not %.
  
  
  Person
  Favor the use of the second–person pronoun, you, over the indefinite third–person singular pronoun, one.
  Do not assume that the pronoun for a third–person singular noun is him or he. To avoid awkward constructions like he/she, revise sentences.
  
  
  Tables & Figures
  Capitalize all references to your own tables and figures, such as "see Figure 1" or "see Table 2 below".
  Always spell out the words Figure or Table in reference to illustrations in the course of the paper.
  Use lower case for references to figures or tables in cited literature, such as (Kokomo, 1999, figure 8) or (Dolton, 1968, table 5).
  
  
  Verb Tense
  Choose a verb tense and maintain its use throughout the document. Carefully consider use of the future tense, as often it is unnecessary.
  In discussions of the literature, use the past tense, as in "Valauskas (1990) remarked that ... ."
  
  
  World Wide Web
  Use the Web or the World Wide Web but not the web.
  
  
  Reference Format
  
  
  References should take the following formats:
  
  
  Papers in Journals
  David R. Bentley, 1996. "Genomic Sequence Information Should Be Released Immediately and Freely in the Public Domain," Science, volume 274, number 5287 (25 October), pp. 533–534.
  Kuldeep Kumar and Han G. van Dissel, 1996. "Sustainable Collaboration: Managing Conflict and Cooperation in Interorganizational Systems," MIS Quarterly, volume 20, number 3 (September), pp. 279–300.
  Steven Bachrach, R. Stephen Berry, Martin Blume, Thomas von Foerster, Alexander Fowler, Paul Ginsparg, Stephen Heller, Neil Kestner, Andrew Odlyzko, Ann Okerson, Ron Wigington, and Anne Moffat, 1998. "Who Should Own Scientific Papers?" Science, volume 281, number 5382, pp. 1459–1460.
  
  
  Papers in Press
  Suzanne de Castell, Mary Bryson, and Jennifer Jenson, in press. "Object Lessons: Critical Visions of Educational Technology," First Monday.
  
  
  Papers in Edited Volumes
  J.C.R. Licklider, 1960. "Quasi–linear operator models in the study of manual tracking, " In: R. Duncan Luce (editor). Developments in Mathematical Psychology: Information, Learning, and Tracking. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, pp. 167–279.
  
  
  Papers in Conference Proceedings
  V. Bellotti and A. Sellen, 1993. "Design for Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing Environments," In: G.D. Michelis, C. Simone, and K. Schmidt (editors). Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work — ECSCW'93, Milan, Italy, pp. 77–92.
  M. D. Byrne, B. E. John, N. S. Wehrle, and D. C. Crow, 1999. "The Tangled Web We Wove: A Taxonomy of WWW Use," Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 99). New York: ACM Press, pp. 544–551.
  
  
  Papers in Journals on the World Wide Web
  Richard Einer Peterson, 1997. "Eight Internet Search Engines Compared," First Monday, volume 2, number 2 (February), at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue2_2/peterson/, accessed 14 December 2001.
  Clifford Lynch, 1997. "Searching the Internet," Scientific American, volume 276 (March), pp. 50–56, and at http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397lynch.html, accessed 4 December 2001.
  
  
  World Wide Web Sites
  Google at http://www.google.com, accessed 14 December 2001.
  M. Naor and B. Pinkas, "Oblivious Polynomial Evaluation," at http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/onpub.html, accessed 1 December 2001.
  
  
  Book by One Author
  J.C.R. Licklider, 1965. Libraries of the Future. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  
  
  Books by More Than One Author
  James Gillies and Robert Cailliau, 2000. How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web. New York: Oxford University Press.

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