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Information & Culture

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TRIANNUAL · 6 x 9 · 128 PAGES/ISSUE · ISSN 2164-8034 E-ISSN 2166-3033 (issue 47:1 and later) · ISSN 1932-4855 E-ISSN 1932-9555 (issues between 41:3 and 46:4) · ISSN 0894-8631 E-ISSN 1534-7591 (issue 41:2 and earlier)

Information & Culture is an academic journal printed three times a year by the University of Texas Press. It publishes original, high-quality peer-reviewed articles examining the social and cultural influences and impact of information and its associated technologies, broadly construed, on all areas of human endeavor. In keeping with the spirit of information studies, we seek papers emphasizing a human-centered focus that address the role of and reciprocal relationship of information and culture, regardless of time and place.

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Recent Issues

Volume 56, Issue 1, 2021

Articles
Knowledge Organization in the Wild: The Propaedia, Roget's, and the DDC: Jonathan Furner
Hegel and Knowledge Organization, or Why the Dewey Decimal Classification Is Not Hegelian: Shachar Freddy Kislev
The Public Interest and the Information Superhighway: The Digital Future Coalition (1996–2002) and the Afterlife of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Volume 55, Number 3, 2020

Editor's Note: It's All about Information and Culture, by Andrew Dillion

Articles
Arguing Against Graphic Ambivalence: What Earth Modeling Reveals about Visualization in Scientific Computing: Nicole Sansone Ruiz
The Evolution of the Ethnographic Object Catalog of the Canadian Museum of History, Part 2: Systematizing, Communicating, and Reconc...

Volume 55, Number 2, 2020



Articles
From Programming to Products: Softalk Magazine and the Rise of the Personal Computer User: Laine Nooney, Kevin Driscoll, and Kera Allen
Becoming Socialist: Print Culture and the Global Revolutionary Moment, 1880-1914: Brendan Fay
Deliberation or Manipulation? The Issue of Governmental Information in Sweden, 1969-1973: Fredrik Norén

Volume 55, Number 1, 2020

Special Issue: A History of Women in British Telecommunications

Articles
A History of Women in British Telecommunications: Introducing a Special Issue: Elizabeth Bruton and Mar Hicks
Embodying Telegraphy in Late Victorian London: Katie Hindmarch-Watson
"Maiden, Whom We Never See": Cultural Representations of the "Lady Telephonist" i...

Volume 54, Number 3, 2019

Perspectives on Information

Collecting as Routine Human Behavior: Personal Identity and Control in the Material and Digital World
Andrew Dillon

Articles
A Tale of Two Networks: The Bell Telephone System and the Meaning of "Information," 1947–1968: Emily Goodmann
"Hemisphere Traini...

Submissions:

Submissions

The journal welcomes submissions from an array of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches, including but not limited to historical, sociological, psychological, political and educational research that address the interaction of information and culture.

To learn more about our submission standards or submit an article for publication in Information & Culture, visit our submissions page.

View complete list of submission guidelines at infoculturejournal.org

Peer Review Process

Articles submitted to Information & Culture are initially reviewed by the editors, who determine whether the manuscript will be sent to outside reviewers. If chosen for review, the manuscript is then evaluated in a double-blind process by at least two and usually three outside reviewers, including members of the journal's Editorial Advisory Board, and/or other experts in relevant fields as selected by the editors. This peer review process is designed to ensure that Information & Culture publishes only original, accurate, and timely articles that contribute new knowledge, insights or valuable perspectives to our discipline.

Evaluation

Reviewers play a vital role in ensuring the quality of papers published in the journal.

Questions addressed by reviewers include:

Is the topic within the scope of the journal?
Is the topic significant or sufficiently interesting to warrant publication?
Is the scholarship adequately documented and is relevant literature reviewed?
Are the research aims and any methodological choices made by author clear and justified?
Is the article well organized and clearly written?

Reviewers make one of three recommendations: acceptance, acceptance with revision, rejection. Reviewers are asked to include comments explaining the recommendation to provide authors with suitable feedback to improve the article. Our aim is to create a constructive process that benefits the journal and the authors while respecting the time and efforts of all volunteer reviewers.

Review Timetable

We understand that the timeliness of decisions and publication is a major concern of authors. The typical manuscript is reviewed by one of the editors and sent out to reviewers within a couple of weeks after submission. Reviewers typically have six weeks to prepare their review (a second round of reviews may be solicited if the initial reviewers disagree). Then a couple of weeks are typically required to reconcile reviewer comments (and identify any significant copyediting issues for papers that were accepted or accepted with slight revisions). Thus, it is quite possible that an author could hear back in less than two months from the time of submission. However, the realities of the peer-review process sometimes extend our timeline. You will receive a response as expeditiously as possible. If you are seeking publication for a tenure packet, please allow for ample review time and let us know this is a consideration. Authors receive the reviewers’ comments and are often asked to revise the manuscript in line with the reviewers’ and/or editor’s suggestions. If the revised article is accepted for publication, the editor then determines the journal issue in which it will appear. Authors can help speed the process by ensuring they follow the submission requirements and, if accepted, addressing the reviewers comments and any copy-editing requirements in a timely fashion.

Self-Archiving and Institutional Repository Policy for Information & Culture

A pre-print is defined as the un-refereed, pre-copyedited, author-version of an article submitted for publication.

A post-print is defined as the version of an article following peer review that contains author revisions but that has not been copyedited by the University of Texas Press journal that will publish the article.

Information & Culture authors retain the right to make pre-print and post-print versions of their article available on their personal website, institutional repository, or not-for-profit server, upon acceptance by the University of Texas Press. Authors are not required to remove pre-print and/or post-print versions after publication.

A pre-print must be accompanied by this notice: "This is an un-refereed, pre-copyedited version of an article submitted for publication in (Journal title, volume, issue number, and year).

A post-print must be accompanied by this notice: "This is a pre-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in (Journal title, volume, issue number, and year) following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available from University of Texas Press."

Allegations of Misconduct

The Editorial office of Information & Culture follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) regarding allegations of potential research or publication misconduct. When a credible allegation is made the editorial staff will gather relevant documentation and then give the author(s) an opportunity to respond. The editors may request additional information from the author(s) to help verify the originality and/or the veracity of the work. The editorial staff may also seek advice from relevant experts, including Advisory Board members and The University of Texas Press.

The editorial office will reject submitted work in instances where plagiarized content is found in a manuscript. Any material found to include plagiarize content or fraudulent results post-publication will be retracted, and upon investigation, an expression of concern may be issued.

Readers, reviewers and editors can contact the editors about any suspicions of plagiarism by sending email to the editorial staff.

Complaints Process

The final decision on a submitted manuscript is made by the editor(s). This decision is communicated to the corresponding author via email. The decision can be one of the following: accept, accept after minor revisions, reconsider after major revisions; reject and encourage resubmission, and reject. If the author(s) find something in the review materials or in the editors’ decision letter that is unclear or inconsistent, they may contact the editorial office for clarification.

An appeal process has been established to allow authors an opportunity to appeal the editor’s decision only when the latter is affected by factual or procedural errors. Perceived fairness of the decision does not constitute grounds for appeal. Authors appealing the editor’s decision should submit a letter of appeal to the editorial office within 30 days of receiving the decision email. The letter of appeal should describe the errors and provide a detailed demonstration that those errors were material to the editor’s decision.

The author’s appeal is allowed to override earlier decisions by the editors only when new information germane to the original review decision is presented. The author’s protest alone is not sufficient to affect the editors’ decision.

Conflicts of Interest

A conflict of interest occurs when an existing relationship (personal, financial, contractual, political, professional, religious, or otherwise) is perceived to impact the objectivity in presenting, reviewing, or publishing a piece of work. The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) states in its Guidelines on Good Publication Practice (2003) that ‘Conflicts of interest arise when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that are not fully apparent and that may influence their judgments on what is published. They have been described as those which, when revealed later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled or deceived.’

Conflicts involving reviewers
Reviewers are expected to exclude themselves from evaluating manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest. All information obtained in the reviewing process should be treated as confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Conflicts involving authors
The journal requires all prospective authors to disclose any potential conflict of interest that are direct related to the work submitted for publication and that could impact the objectivity and/or integrity of a publication. Authors must identify and disclose any conflict of interest at the time of submission. If there is no conflict of interest, please state “The author(s) declare no conflict of interest.” For works authored by several scholars, the corresponding author shall review this policy with contributing authors to disclose all conflicts of interest collectively.

If a study was sponsored/funded in its entity or in some part (the design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, etc.), the role of the sponsor/funder should be stated as well. If no funding has been received, the author(s) should state “The author(s) declare no financial support for the research reported in this article.”

Failure to disclose conflicts of interest may result in a rejection of a submitted work. If a conflict of interest is discovered after the work has been published, the editor will communicate the incident to the readers by publishing a notice. Anyone who suspects an undisclosed conflict of interest in the work that has been published or is under considered by the journal should contact the editorial staff.

Conflicts involving editors
Submissions authored by the current editors of the journal will be handled by a guest editor who will oversee the review process and the final decision on the manuscript in question.

Authorship Criteria

The list of authors should accurately reflect who contributed to the work presented. All individuals listed as authors should meet the following qualifying criteria:

contributed substantially to conceptualization, design, data collection, analysis, and/or interpretation of the findings AND
contributed to drafting or revising of the manuscript AND
approved the final version of the manuscript for publication AND
agreed to accept responsibility for all aspects of the work including its accuracy and integrity.

Contributions for those who do not meet the authorship criteria should be attributed in the Acknowledgement section. It is expected that authors include a general acknowledgement where their work has received substantial intellectual and technical help, including in the writing and editing of the manuscript.

Order and disambiguation of names
Any change to the list of authors or its ordering is expected to be agreed upon by all persons involved, including those whose names have been removed from the list. Any changes in authorship should be communicated in the letter to the editor. The editorial office encourages authors to take measures and remove potential ambiguity around personal names by using appropriate tools (e.g.. ORCID) that provide unique digital identifiers.

The corresponding author
The corresponding author is expected to act on behalf of all co-authors and communicate with the editorial office during the review process. It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that all co-authors have seen and approve of the final version of the manuscript and have agreed to its publication.

Editorial Office:

Editors
Ciaran B. Trace
School of Information
1616 Guadalupe, Suite 5.202
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78701-1213

Andrew Dillon
School of Information
1616 Guadalupe Suite 5.202
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78701-1213

Indexers:

Information & Culture is indexed in Academic OneFile, Academic Search Premier, America: History and Life, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Review Index, Historical Abstracts, IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews), IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), Library and Information Science Abstracts, Library and Information Science Source, Literature Resource Center, MLA International Bibliography, and Referativnyi Zhurnal

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Issue	Reservations	Artwork
Winter	November 15	December 1
Spring	February 15	March 1
Summer	May 15	June 1

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