Call for Proposals: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine seeks article submissions for its Arts and Humanities section. Articles may take the form of either analytical pieces of less than 6000 words which supply historical, medical, or policy analysis on a specific topic, or narrative pieces of less than 3000 words which provide personal perspectives on medical or biomedical topics. YJBM is a quarterly journal for the biological and medical communities which is reviewed and edited by Yale biomedical faculty and students. YJBM is freely available on PubMed Central, and is an open-access publication. For questions, contact the Arts and Humanities editors: Paul Shin (paul.shin@yale.edu) and Heather Varughese (heather.varughese@yale.edu). For submissions, see: http://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/guidelines/index.aspx.

heather.varughese@yale.edu, paul.shin@yale.edu Email: heather.varughese@yale.edu Visit the website at http://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/guidelines/index.aspx

Call for Applicants: Allen Smith Visiting Scholars Program

The Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Simmons College,
Massachusetts, is pleased to invite proposals for participation in the Allen
Smith Visiting Scholars Program, which honors the memory of distinguished
teacher and scholar Allen Smith. Allen Smith Visiting Scholars are expected to
be distinguished practitioners, educators, or researchers renowned for their
work in reference, oral history, or the study of librarianship and information
service in the humanities. Opportunities include semester-long visiting
professorships, shorter-term lectureships, or presentation in an annual lecture
series.  The program provides support for transportation, honorarium, and
related expenses depending on the nature of participation, and is open to
scholars worldwide.

Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a proposed time frame and
agenda of activities, and a statement outlining the applicant’s
qualifications and the benefits the applicant would bring to the Simmons
community. There is no deadline, except that proposals for semester-long
visiting professorships should be submitted well in advance of the proposed
semester.

For more information, please contact Professor Candy Schwartz,
candy.schwartz@simmons.edu.

To learn more about our esteemed colleague and friend Allen Smith, see
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/news/news/2008.php#news874 and the wiki  “Allen
Smith Quotations”,
http://gslis.simmons.edu/wikis/dwiggins/Allen_Smith_Quotations.

Call for Proposals: Emerald's Social Information Research. Due August 15

Emerald’s Library and Information Science book series special volume Social Information Research

Proposal submission deadline: August 15, 2011
Accepted full chapters deadline: December 15, 2011

Co-editors
Professor Gunilla Widén (gwiden@abo.fi) and Dr. Kim Holmberg (kholmber@abo.fi)
Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi university, Finland

The Library and Information Science book series announces a call for papers on topics related to Social Information Research. We seek conceptual, analytical and empirical papers covering the newest and most innovative approaches to the study of this theme.

Online information and social information that we receive from and create together with our social networks are becoming increasingly important both in our everyday lives as well as our professional lives. Social information has in many ways a great impact on our information behaviour as we receive information and recommendations from our networks and our friends are being used as part of ranking algorithms by various information services. There are many possible angles and layers in studying social aspects in information science and it is important to coordinate these aspects.

We can study the social context of information creation and dissemination both as human group behaviour as well as through the tools and technological innovations supporting networking activities. We can study social information behaviour as part of information behaviour (IB) but also more precisely through e.g. social information retrieval, social search, social bookmarking and other social recommendation systems, and co-creation of information.

The purpose of this book is to collect current research representing these and other aspects of social information with emphasis on the new innovations supporting today’s information behaviour. This is a cutting edge topic where several relevant disciplines are combined (information science, social media and business organization). There are a lot of assumptions about how the social and interactive web will affect our information behaviour but few publications based on research. The aim of the book is to present the kaleidoscope of social information.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: social creation of information, online information dissemination, online social networks and/or social networking in relation to information dissemination and creation, social information retrieval, social search, social bookmarking and other social recommendation systems, social information management and/or knowledge management and social media in relation to information science research.

Submission procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a 1-2 page chapter proposal by August 15, 2011. Authors will be notified of the status of their proposal by September 15, 2011. Full chapters (7500–9000 words) are expected to be submitted by December 15, 2011. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Final revised manuscripts are due on March 31, 2012.
Proposals and manuscripts should be sent electronically to both of the editors Gunilla Widén (gwiden@abo.fi) and Kim Holmberg (kholmber@abo.fi). Submissions must be in either Word or PDF format.
Complete author guidelines are available at:http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/ebookseries/author_guidelines.htm

About the Library and Information Science book series
The Library and Information Science Series solicits and publishes edited and non-edited manuscripts on all theoretical and practical aspects in the creation, distribution, location, acquisition, organization, retrieval, and management of information. New ways for creating, distributing, organising and using digital information have emerged including content production, user and organisational issues. The Library and Information Science Series aims to publish leading edge monographs with new theories, models, research developments, and organizational and management issues.

The Library and Information Science book series covers new and important topical research and professional issues in the field. Selected topics also provide a bridge between current theoretical developments and the research interests of applied researchers in information science, libraries, information professions, information industry and related disciplines.

The Library and Information Science book series essential reading for academics, researchers and practitioners who are involved in information science and librarianship research, and eager to keep up with the latest research findings and trends.

Call for Proposals: 4th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy. Due October 2

Proposals are sought for sessions focused on effective instructional practices and research aimed at improving the quality of teaching and learning in higher education. Three types of conference sessions are offered: Research Sessions, Practice Sessions, and Poster Sessions.

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Session Types

Concurrent Sessions: Concurrent sessions provide the presenter with the opportunity to engage participants in either the research or practice of the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Research Sessions: Research sessions are designed to inform participants of the design, implementation and results of empirical research focused on teaching and learning in higher education. Research session presentations are 25 minutes in length. More details »

Practice Sessions: Practice sessions are focused on sharing, modeling and discussing higher education teaching and learning, while allowing for interaction with and among session participants. These sessions should go beyond simply "how to" to include "why to." Practice sessions are 50 minutes in length. More details »

Please Note: There will be a limited number of Concurrent Sessions, thus some authors who submit for a Concurrent Session may be asked to present as a Poster Session instead.

Poster Sessions: Poster sessions allow for the discussion of scholarly research and/or practice addressing higher education pedagogy with conference participants in an informal scholarly environment. Posters will be assigned to one 90-minute poster session. More details »

Important Dates

Proposals Due	October 2, 2011
Notification of Acceptance	October 17, 2011
Registration Deadline	January 15, 2012
Conference Date	February 8-10, 2012

Potential Topics

The conference proceedings from 2009-11 are available online and give a sense of the variety of topics and disciplines that have been featured at the conference.

Session topics may address any of a wide range of aspects of higher education pedagogy and the investigation, understanding, and improvement of higher education teaching and learning. Proposals may be focused on a specific domain (e.g., English, Business, Engineering) or may be interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary or multidisciplinary. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

• Assessing Student Learning
• Employing Innovative Pedagogy
• Teaching for Individual Differences
• Implementing Effective Strategies
• Designing Effective Instruction
• Integrating Technology Effectively
• Creating Domain Specific Pedagogy (e.g., English, chemistry, engineering, history, art, wildlife science)
• Funding and Publishing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Submit a Proposal

Proposals for either Concurrent Sessions or Poster Sessions must be submitted online following the provided template formats and adhering to APA guidelines. Two-page papers will be submitted for research or practice sessions and abstracts only for poster proposals.

Register for the Conference

Authors who plan to attend the conference must also register for the conference. There is no registration fee or cost to attend the conference. We believe that budgetary reductions of travel money and professional development funds should not be a barrier to increased instructional effectiveness and improved student learning.

Conference Proceedings

All conference proposals — research, practice and poster — will be published both as a hard copy and electronic (PDF) conference proceedings. Two-page papers will be published for accepted research and practice sessions, and abstracts will be published for accepted poster sessions. Those authors who elect not be included in the proceedings may opt out.

Contact Information:

Chair		Co-Chair
Cortney Martin		Lauren Bryant
109 Hillcrest Hall		122 Hillcrest Hall
(540) 230-9366		(540) 231-6823
martinc@vt.edu		labryant@vt.edu

Weekly Roundup: 5/30-6/10

Note:  this week's weekly roundup is actually two weeks' worth of CFPs and other items!  It's been pretty quiet on the CFP front, and these are the only new ones I've seen come through:


Publication CFPs

• Call for Full Papers:  Journal of Library and Information Research.  Due October 14
• Call for Proposals:  Chapters for Virtual Worlds in Online and Distance Education.  Due July 22

Conference CFPs

• Call for Proposals:  4th International Conference of Education Research & Innovation.  Due July 14

Call for Proposals: 2nd International Conference on Popular Culture and Education. Due June 30

You are invited to join us at the Second International Conference on Popular Culture and Education, organised by the Centre for Popular Culture and Education, at the Hong Kong Institute of Education!We accept paper presentation that deals broadly with the theme “popular culture and education”. Keynote Speakers include Jackie Marsh, University of Sheffield; Phil Benson, Hong Kong Institute of Education; Victoria Carrington, University of East Anglia; Greg Dimitriadis, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Margaret C. Hagood, College of Charleston; and Nicola Yelland, Victoria University, Melbourne. For more details, please visit our conference website.

Nikita Chan, Conference Secretary Centre for Popular Culture and Education Hong Kong Institute of Education CPCE website: http://home.ied.edu.hk/~hkpop/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CPCE.HKIEd Email: hkpop@ied.edu.hk  Visit the website at http://home.ied.edu.hk/~hkpop/conference2011.html

Call for Proposals: Chapters for Virtual Worlds in Online and Distance Education. Due July 22

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited book on Virtual Worlds in Online and Distance Education, to be published by Athabasca University Press as part of Terry Anderson's Issues in Distance Education series. The book's scope will encompass the use of virtual worlds for fully online/distance and blended modes of education in post-secondary settings across the globe. There will be two types of chapters, namely chapters addressing specific themes and issues (5,000-8,000 words) and chapters reporting on case studies (2,000-4,000 words).

The Call for Proposals is available online at the following web site:

http://www.virtualclassrooms.info/vwwg/vwwgbook.html

The key dates are as follows:

- July 22, 2011 - one to two-page proposals due

- August 19, 2011 - authors notified as to the status of their proposals

- November 18, 2011 - full chapter manuscripts due

- January 27, 2012 - results of manuscript review process made available to authors

- February 24, 2012 - revised chapter manuscripts due

- late 2012 - publication of book in both print and online (open access) formats

Queries and expressions of interest can be directed to the editors, Sue Gregory, Mark J. W. Lee, Barney Dalgarno and Belinda Tynan atvirtualworldsinODE@gmail.com. Please also feel free to share this information with others who you think might be interested.

Kind regards,

Sue Gregory

Lecturer, School of Education, University of New England Chair, Australia & New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group

Mark J. W. Lee

Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Charles Sturt University Adjunct Senior Lecturer, DEHub Research Institute, University of New England

Barney Dalgarno

Associate Professor, School of Education, Charles Sturt University

Belinda Tynan

Professor and Academic Director, Faculty of the Professions, and Director, DEHub Research Institute, University of New England